private_messaging comments on Futurism's Track Record - Less Wrong

12 Post author: lukeprog 29 January 2014 08:27PM

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Comment author: private_messaging 02 February 2014 08:22:34AM -2 points [-]

Yeah. Non-experts are more numerous and make predictions which are far more random. Essentially my model of non-expert prediction is "a bunch of people take more or less outdated expert predictions and add random jitter".