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Vladimir_Nesov comments on Draft: Reasons to Use Informal Probabilities - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: jimrandomh 11 October 2010 10:50PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 11 October 2010 11:09:14PM 3 points [-]

Probabilities are easier to remember than informal notions of confidence.

You don't usually remember informal notions of confidence either, you regenerate them on request from the global model of the world in your mind.