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.

Lumifer comments on Open thread, Aug. 17 - Aug. 23, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: MrMind 17 August 2015 07:05AM

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

Comments (106)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Lumifer 19 August 2015 07:52:57PM 3 points [-]

don't really matter because it will come out the same on average.

Volatility matters. Imagine that one day the temperature in your house was set to 50F (+10C) and the next day -- to 90F (+32C). On the average it comes out to 70F (+20C), so it's fine, right?