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sark comments on John Baez Interviews with Eliezer (Parts 2 and 3) - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: multifoliaterose 29 March 2011 05:36PM

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Comment author: sark 30 March 2011 03:46:24PM 1 point [-]

Hmm, I wonder if there is a bias in human cognition, which makes it easier for us to think of ever larger utilities/disutilities than of ever tinier probabilities. My intuition says the former, which is why I tend to be skeptical of such large impact small probability events.