Arran_Stirton comments on 4 Common Prediction Failures and How to Fix Them [LINK] - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Arran_Stirton 06 February 2015 04:01:27AM 5 points [-]

Nice article, have a karma!

There's a lot of information there, I'd suggest perhaps using this article as the basis for a four part series one each area. The content is non-obvious, so having the extra space to really break down the inferential distance into small steps so that the conclusions are intuitive to non-rationalists would be useful.

(As an aside I suspect that writing for the CFAR blog is right now reasonably high impact for the time investment. Personally I found CFAR's apparent radio-silence since September unnerving and it's possible that it was part of the reason the matching fundraiser struggled. Despite Anna's excellent post on CFAR's progress the lack of activity may have caused people to feel as though CFAR was stagnating and thus be less inclined to part with their money on a System 1 level.)

Comment author: Peter_McIntyre 10 February 2015 01:28:02AM 1 point [-]

Thanks for the feedback, Arran. Re: radio silence, we're working on it and there are a few posts scheduled to be coming out soon. :)

Comment author: [deleted] 10 February 2015 02:08:13AM 1 point [-]

Why wasn't Anna's update on CFAR (or her other recent posts) posted on the blog? Seems like the logical place to put it rather than lesswrong.