hamnox comments on Open Thread, April 27-May 4, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hamnox 30 April 2014 12:55:10PM 2 points [-]

100 × log2(Your probability of outcome/Previous Bet probability of outcome).. For example: if you updated a 50% house bet to 99% being correct would give you 98.55 "bits", while being wrong would give you -564.39

It's posted a couple of posts up. I had given no credence to the idea that it could be a CFAR secret.