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JoshuaFox 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: lukeprog 27 August 2012 05:40:08PM *  6 points [-]

This topic has been raised dozens of times before, but the stories are scattered. Here's a sampling:

But also see this comment from Carl Shulman.

Comment author: JoshuaFox 28 August 2012 05:49:22PM *  2 points [-]

Or even better:

  • "I used to buy lottery tickets every day but now I understand the negative expectation of the gamble and the diminishing marginal utility of the ticket, so I don't."
  • A doctor says "I now realize that I was giving my patients terrible advice about what it meant when a test showed positive for a disease. Now that I have been inducted into the Secret Order of Bayes, My advice on that is much better now."

.... etc.

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