bigjeff5 comments on Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark - Less Wrong

45 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 August 2007 03:55AM

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Comment author: Robin_Hanson2 28 August 2007 06:10:23PM 3 points [-]

Eliezer, yes sometimes nature includes rare events, but only rarely. We should evaluate human inference abilities on average across the kinds of cases humans face, and not just for rare surprising events.

Comment author: bigjeff5 30 January 2011 10:34:37PM 2 points [-]

The plethora of incorrect hypothesis compared to the relatively few correct (so far) theories seem to speak against this.