ChrisHibbert comments on How to Measure Anything - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 07 August 2013 07:46:10AM 5 points [-]

Progress is reduction of expected work remaining.

No it isn't. Those things are often correlated but not equivalent. New information can be gained that increases the expected work remaining despite additional valuable work having been done.

Comment author: ChrisHibbert 10 August 2013 05:15:39PM 1 point [-]

|New information can be gained that increases the expected work remaining despite additional valuable work having been done.

That's progress.

Comment author: wedrifid 10 August 2013 07:25:45PM 1 point [-]

|New information can be gained that increases the expected work remaining despite additional valuable work having been done.

That's progress.

Yes. That is the point.