Lake comments on When (Not) To Use Probabilities - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 July 2008 10:58AM

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Comment author: Lake 23 July 2008 11:34:32AM 3 points [-]

Hardly the most profound addendum, I know, but dummy numbers *can* be useful for illustrative purposes - for instance, to show how steeply probabilities decline as claims are conjoined.