[SEQ RERUN] Focus Your Uncertainty

post by Tyrrell_McAllister · 2011-06-30T05:21:41.099Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 0 comments

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Today's post, Focus Your Uncertainty, was originally published on 05 August 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

If you are paid for post-hoc analysis, you might like theories that "explain" all possible outcomes equally well, without focusing uncertainty. But what if you don't know the outcome yet, and you need to have an explanation ready in 100 minutes? Then you want to spend most of your time on excuses for the outcomes that you anticipate most, so you still need a theory that focuses your uncertainty.

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This post is part of the Rerunning the Sequences series, in which we're going through Eliezer Yudkowsky's old posts in order, so that people who are interested can (re-)read and discuss them. The previous post was The Importance of Saying "Oops", and you can use the sequence_reruns tag or rss feed to follow the rest of the series.

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