You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Crush Your Uncertainty - Less Wrong Discussion

16 [deleted] 03 October 2013 05:48AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (32)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 03 October 2013 06:31:25PM 0 points [-]

An alternative to "Crush Your Uncertainty" is "Maximize Your Freedom". Uncertainty is not so much of a problem if you can live with either outcome.

This is not intended as a recommendation for freedom. Just puts this into a wider perspective. The need to crush your uncertainty is larger if the price of a misjudgement is higher.

The rule thus rather is: "Crush your uncertainty times cost". And I bet there are game theoretical results about that.