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Armok_GoB comments on Irrationality Game II - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 04 July 2012 08:06:07PM 0 points [-]

Simple compared to what, and with what rates of false positives/negatives?

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 04 July 2012 08:54:17PM 0 points [-]

As in implementable in a couple of hundred lines of JavaScript. If I had good answers for the second question, I'd be a lot more sure than 20%.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 05 July 2012 01:29:24AM 0 points [-]

Something that disqualifies things that don't contain keywords from the thing you're currently working on might function as a very crude version of this.

Come up with 20 independent algorithms like that, use bayes theorem to combine the results, and you should come pretty close.