Eugine_Nier comments on 2013 Survey Results - Less Wrong

74 Post author: Yvain 19 January 2014 02:51AM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 26 January 2014 09:08:02PM 0 points [-]

But why would your distribution be two deltas at 10^-4 and 10^-16 and not more continuous?

Because it's a toy example and it's easier to work out the math this way. You can get similar results with more continuous distributions, the math is simply more complicated.

Comment author: MathieuRoy 26 January 2014 09:13:25PM *  1 point [-]

Ok right. I agree.