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Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Open thread, July 16-22, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 18 July 2013 08:18:35PM 2 points [-]

Should we even call this a bias? They're both unfortunate, but they're also both reasonable Bayesian updates.

Comment author: tim 18 July 2013 10:41:23PM 1 point [-]

Good point. They are generally useful heuristics that sometimes lead to unnecessary conflicts.