Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Trust in Bayes - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 January 2008 11:12PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 January 2008 01:35:41AM 1 point [-]

I was trying to use "fun" as a synonym for the amount of utility experienced in a given activity, I guess. Rolf Nelson put it better (modulo his correction); note also that you can substitute 53% and 52% for 100% and 50% in his example above, to avoid certainty effects.