Viliam_Bur comments on The Ten Commandments of Rationality - Less Wrong

-5 Post author: Sophronius 30 March 2014 04:36PM

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 30 March 2014 09:54:24PM *  2 points [-]

I like that it's self-contained, not a maze of hyperlinks. Could be a bit shorter, though.

Perhaps each point could start with the essence (in bold) and follow with an explanation, like this:

Thou shalt not assign a probability exactly equal to 0 or 1.

Declaring to the skies that thy certainty regarding any matter is absolute is declaring thyself infallible and placing thyself above thine most holy lord, Bayes.