michael_vassar comments on Above-Average AI Scientists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: michael_vassar 30 September 2008 09:31:00PM 3 points [-]

Phil: Your estimate rewards precision and penalizes self estimate of precision. A person of a given level of precision should be rewarded for believing their precision to be what it is, not for believing it to be low. If you had self-estimate of precision in the numerator that would negate Nick's claim, but then you could drop the term from both sides.