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snarles comments on Human inability to assign numerical probabilities - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: snarles 30 September 2010 09:52:54PM *  0 points [-]

I wouldn't assume that the ability to assign numerical probabilities would even be useful for epistemic rationality, since even if there were a way to calculate a consistent measure of 'degree of belief' it might be so computationally intensive that to give this number in any reasonable amount of time would require corner-cutting which would result in the final number being less than fully representative of your 'subjective probability' anyways.

(Granted: such an ability might be of aid to gamblers)