gmweinberg comments on Information cascades - Less Wrong

48 Post author: Johnicholas 06 March 2009 04:08AM

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Comment author: gmweinberg 07 March 2009 10:27:19PM 18 points [-]

The confusion is because you are trying to do two contradictory things with your "vote". If the goal is to inform future readers as to whether a post is high quality or low quality, clearly you should just give your personal assessment. The only reason you'd take priors into account was if your "vote" was actually a "bet" and there was some advantage to "betting" correctly.

Comment author: handoflixue 30 April 2012 08:13:44PM 3 points [-]

Lesson learned: If you want useful feedback, avoid making it a bet/competition.

Comment author: Nebu 20 December 2015 06:55:09AM 0 points [-]

But what about prediction markets?