Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on How to Measure Anything - Less Wrong

50 Post author: lukeprog 07 August 2013 04:05AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 August 2013 05:09:26PM 11 points [-]

Progress is reduction of expected work remaining compared to your revised expectation of how much work remained yesterday.

Comment author: owencb 07 August 2013 05:59:02PM 4 points [-]

That seems to be a better fit for the impression of progress. You wouldn't tend, in retrospect, to call it progress if you realised you'd been going in completely the wrong direction.

This would fit with progress simply be the reduction of work remaining.

Comment author: RobbBB 07 August 2013 08:58:32PM 2 points [-]

Right. I think this is more an operationalization than a strict definition.

Comment author: BrienneYudkowsky 08 August 2013 01:42:19AM 0 points [-]

Yes, what RobbBB said.