shminux comments on The Weighted Majority Algorithm - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 November 2008 11:19PM

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Comment author: shminux 22 September 2014 05:00:20PM 1 point [-]

Seems like noise to me. Only one person cared enough about what you wrote to vote, and they disliked your post. Upvoted back to zero, since the comments seem pretty reasonable to me.

Comment author: lackofcheese 22 September 2014 10:45:56PM *  0 points [-]

Thanks; it didn't occur to me to think of it statistically, although it seems obvious now.

That said, individual downvotes / upvotes still have reasons behind them; it's just that you can't generally expect to find out what they are except when they come in significant clusters.