PhilGoetz comments on Voiceofra is banned - Less Wrong

21 Post author: NancyLebovitz 23 December 2015 06:29PM

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Comment author: username2 29 December 2015 12:03:42AM 2 points [-]

This doesn't work for new posters.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 26 February 2016 07:46:08AM 0 points [-]

Why do you think that? When you have no prior, either assume P(up) = P(down), or (better) use the priors gotten by averaging all votes by all users. That's standard practice.