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Manfred comments on Open thread, August 5-11, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Manfred 07 August 2013 01:47:16AM *  2 points [-]

http://xkcd.com/687/

Or to put it another way - probability is not just a unit. You need to keep track of probability of what, and to whom, or else you end up like the bad dimensional analysis comic.