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Strilanc comments on What do you mean by Pascal's mugging? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Strilanc 21 November 2014 05:51:28PM *  2 points [-]

I am pretty sick of 1% being given as the natural lowest error rate of humans on anything. It's not.

Hmm. Our error rate moment to moment may be that high, but it's low enough that we can do error correction and do better over time or as a group. Not sure why I didn't realize that until now.

(If the error rate was too high, error correction would be so error-prone it would just introduce more error. Something analogous happens in quantum error correction codes).