Unknowns comments on 2014 Survey Results - Less Wrong

87 Post author: Yvain 05 January 2015 07:36PM

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Comment author: Unknowns 05 January 2015 09:26:23AM 1 point [-]

Are these two things significantly different?

Comment author: lmm 05 January 2015 07:36:57PM 2 points [-]

Imagine someone who acted appropriately towards particular risks (maybe not very artificial ones like betting, but someone who did things like saving an appropriate proportion of their income, spent an appropriate amount of their free time doing fun-but-dangerous things like skydiving), but couldn't translate their risk attitudes into numbers.