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AlexMennen comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread Round 4 - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: lukeprog 27 August 2012 12:04AM

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Comment author: AlexMennen 27 August 2012 01:05:34AM 0 points [-]

If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, then by "risk", you mean "frequentist probability distribution over outcomes", and by "ignorance", you mean "Bayesian probability distribution over what the correct frequentist probability distribution over outcomes is", which is not the way Luke was defining the terms.