Eugine_Nier comments on Rationality Quotes May 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 01 May 2014 11:25:31PM 7 points [-]

Predictors have an incentive to predict likely-events-of-low-consequence when they are not harmed by their errors. But in the real world, what matters is warning about events of high consequence. In the real world, the latter can only be revealed through skin-in-the-game as the supposedly "good predictors" go bankrupt.

Nassim Taleb