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Eugine_Nier comments on Politics Discussion Thread February 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: OrphanWilde 06 February 2013 09:33PM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 07 February 2013 04:39:49AM 3 points [-]

A difficult but important problem would be to rank events by expected impact.

I think you also want to incorporate some measure of their probability in there as well.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 07 February 2013 05:30:08AM 6 points [-]

That's what "expected" means.