gwern comments on Polling Thread - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 22 January 2014 09:14PM

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Comment author: gwern 15 July 2014 06:06:02PM 1 point [-]

Well, if you try entering, say, '2' and hitting Enter, it emits a little red error message: "Probability must be between 0 and 1".

Comment author: KnaveOfAllTrades 15 July 2014 06:09:45PM 0 points [-]

Ah! I only skimmed the page I linked and confused likelihoods (which are probabilities) with likelihood ratios (which are...ratios).

Comment author: gwern 05 August 2014 08:47:42PM 0 points [-]

I see. I wonder if the aliases should just be deleted from the help page? There's no real need to have a bunch of aliases for a poll-command, and as you demonstrate, it's possible to read the page and not realize they're aliases rather than differently-typed polls.