bramflakes comments on Open Thread for February 18-24 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: bramflakes 22 February 2014 02:54:17PM 4 points [-]

Fair enough. I would still contest that the "nurture" component of these outcomes is smaller than is commonly suggested (Ashkenazim in particular) and that I too would bet money on it.

(Also I'm sorry if I came off as rude before)

Comment author: Ritalin 22 February 2014 03:22:51PM *  2 points [-]

You didn't, as far as I am concerned.

(How would we go about making such bets official?)

Comment author: bramflakes 22 February 2014 03:41:33PM 2 points [-]

I don't know how exactly to translate two difference subjective probabilities to a bet structure, but before that we ought to agree on what exactly we're disagreeing over and what the correct answer would look like to determine who wins.

I think that this would necessarily have to be a long-term thing - maybe the scientific consensus X years from now?