Comment by Huey Kwik (huey-kwik) on The Power to Demolish Bad Arguments · 2024-01-15T06:07:02.918Z · LW · GW

I stumbled on this post today and when I read the Acme example, Uber did not come to mind as an example. It was only till I read the comments did I know that Acme was originally Uber. 

Just wanted to give some evidence that changing the example from Acme to Uber was helpful. 

Comment by Huey Kwik (huey-kwik) on Visible Homelessness in SF: A Quick Breakdown of Causes · 2022-06-07T06:23:11.013Z · LW · GW

Note that, since these causes are multiplicative, percentage here is calculated by first taking the log, then dividing

 

Could someone explain why you do this?