ChristianKl comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 111 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MarkusRamikin 25 February 2015 07:51:42PM 0 points [-]

Confidence: 25%.

Hm... this isn't a dig at you or anything, just a thought I'm having trouble answering for myself right now, but how low does one get to set the probability of a prediction, and still call it a prediction? At which point - seems it's not 50% - should you rather say "I'm predicting this won't happen?"

Comment author: ChristianKl 25 February 2015 08:02:43PM 0 points [-]

It's useful to be able to simply focus on probability values it makes things less complicated than always having to shift when the probability goes beyond 50%.