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pjeby comments on New "Best" comment sorting system - Less Wrong Discussion

25 Post author: matt 02 July 2012 11:08AM

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Comment author: pjeby 02 July 2012 08:03:19PM *  6 points [-]

"Best" uses some statistical magic to fix that:

I'm curious whether the math still works correctly on a site where the default karma is 1 instead of 0. But since it's magic to start with, I guess "meh". Let's just not use it to calculate CEV or anything. ;-)