Benito comments on Rationality Quotes April 2014 - LessWrong

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Comment author: Benito 22 April 2014 09:30:04PM 4 points [-]

Whilst arguing that uncertainty is best measured using numbers and probabilities:

We want to measure uncertainties in order to combine them. A politician said that he preferred adverbs to numbers. Unfortunately it is difficult to combine adverbs.

  • Dennis V. Lindley, Understanding Uncertainty
Comment author: CronoDAS 24 April 2014 07:46:06AM *  1 point [-]

[missing the point]
On the contrary, combining adverbs is easy. If X is very uncertain, and Y is very uncertain, then X - Y is very, very uncertain. [/missing the point]

^_^

Comment author: DanArmak 26 April 2014 04:38:24PM 0 points [-]

But without the math to prove it, you may wrongly conclude that the uncertainties cancel out and X - Y is quite certain indeed.

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 29 April 2014 06:37:17AM -1 points [-]

Why isn't it "very, very uncertain, uncertain"? Anyway, 'very' is an adjective. 'Verily' is the adverb.

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