johnswentworth comments on The best 15 words - Less Wrong

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Comment author: johnswentworth 05 October 2013 01:37:11AM 1 point [-]

I like it. In the spirit of iterative improvement, how about this:

Probabilities are subjective, but the information they represent is not. Use all available information on pain of paradox.

Comment author: wedrifid 05 October 2013 03:05:09AM 0 points [-]

I propose an iteration with "on pain of paradox" truncated.

Comment author: johnswentworth 05 October 2013 03:08:47AM 0 points [-]

I'm split on this one. I like it better without "pain of paradox," but it seemed like a third of the book was devoted to pains and paradoxes arising from ignoring information.