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

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Comment author: drethelin 22 February 2014 04:52:36PM 1 point [-]

One of the most annoying things to me about Eliezer is how much is writing style is bombastic and hyperconfident and how it's encouraged here to talk like that despite the entire point of probabilistic reasoning being to NEVER be 100 percent certain of things.