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AlexSchell comments on Open thread, 11-17 March 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: AlexSchell 15 March 2014 01:09:25AM *  0 points [-]

OK, I'll give you that we might non-instrumentally value the accuracy of our beliefs (even so, I don't know how unpack 'accuracy' in a way that can handle both probabilities and uncertainty, but I agree this is another discussion). I still suspect that the concept of uncertainty doesn't help with instrumental rationality, bracketing the supposed immorality of assigning probabilities from sparse information. (Recall that you claimed Knightian uncertainty was 'useful'.)