Desrtopa comments on A Voting Puzzle, Some Political Science, and a Nerd Failure Mode - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 10 October 2013 06:21:04PM -1 points [-]

How do you tell that she "looks intelligent and rational?"

By talking to her.

you adjust your probability estimate that she falls into the overlap of "intelligent" and "rational" downwards.

Would the downgrade from 99.999999% to 99.999998% be satisfactory? :-)

Comment author: Desrtopa 10 October 2013 06:28:19PM 2 points [-]

Would the downgrade from 99.999999% to 99.999998% be satisfactory? :-)

Depends how much information you already have.

I would say it would be awfully hard to get enough information to raise the probability of someone having both high intelligence and high general rationality to 99.999999% in the first place without finding out whether the person was a religious conservative or not, so I would say "possibly, but not in realistic formulations."