Sequence classic: "I don’t think you could get up to 99.99% confidence for assertions like “53 is a prime number.” - eviltoast
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    1 year ago

    Btw…

    I am not going to discuss the actual experiments that have been done on calibration—you can find them in my book chapter on cognitive biases and global catastrophic risk1—because I’ve seen that when I blurt this out to people without proper preparation, they thereafter use it as a Fully General Counterargument, which somehow leaps to mind whenever they have to discount the confidence of someone whose opinion they dislike, and fails to be available when they consider their own opinions.

    lol