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jsalvatier comments on Hope Function - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: gwern 01 July 2012 03:40PM

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Comment author: jsalvatier 02 July 2012 08:14:14AM *  0 points [-]

I didn't see enough graphs, so I put together a spreadsheet for finding the hope function given a graph of the likelihood of finding what you're looking for (and a prior for finding it). I think it's right, but I'd appreciate someone sanity checking it.

I found it nice to be able to change the distribution of probability for the drawers and the prior probability and see what it does to the long term hope function.