torekp comments on [LINK] Holden Karnofsky, GiveWell: Sequence Thinking vs. Cluster Thinking - Less Wrong

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Comment author: torekp 14 June 2014 01:39:22AM 2 points [-]

I've only breezed through Holden Karnofsky's full article, but the demotion of calculated expected values only seems to apply where Knightian uncertainty is considerable.

Comment author: VAuroch 15 June 2014 06:38:26AM 0 points [-]

That's his assertion but his examples don't really seem to support it. Hence my skepticism.