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ozziegooen comments on Creating a Text Shorthand for Uncertainty - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: ozziegooen 19 October 2013 04:46PM

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Comment author: ozziegooen 19 October 2013 11:41:12PM 2 points [-]

Very good point. I like how this could go higher or have in-between values quite easily. In retrospect an equation like this makes much more sense than an intuitive guess, what I wrote down was mostly to use as a start.

I'm not sure if this is exactly the perfect equation for this, given that I think I'd probably want them to be a bit more spaced out if they went to 10 (going further in confidence past 99.9% perhaps) ~i1.