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Will_Newsome comments on Those who can't admit they're wrong - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 01 July 2011 10:39:09AM 0 points [-]

I tried to remain agnostic; on the meta level it could be that 20% of choices of distribution account for 80% of my consternation caused by choices of distribution, or that I am optimizing my message to influence the 20% of people who make 80% of such errors instead of the general Less Wrong populace. I'm advocating a decision policy, much of the epistemic support is swept into the "insofar as my perception is evidence" clause. I can't easily reflect on the intuitive calculus that my brain does to determine the utility of collecting or propagating certain information given many sources of uncertainty.