John_Maxwell_IV comments on Personal examples of semantic stopsigns - Less Wrong

44 Post author: Alexei 06 December 2013 02:12AM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 07 December 2013 06:48:56AM 0 points [-]

One question about semantic stopsigns is the degree to which a given topic is worth pursuing in more detail... just how many sig figs are we going to need on this probability estimate?