▲ 21 ▼ Sequence classic: "I don’t think you could get up to 99.99% confidence for assertions like “53 is a prime number.” (www.lesswrong.com) submitted 2 years ago by titotal@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems 18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] maol@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago (2 children) Mr Yudkowsky is supposedly able to understand advanced maths but doesn't know what rounding is. I think we did rounding in 3rd or 4th grade.... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago You might be comfortable using a single significant digit for any probabilities you pull out of your ass, but Yud 's methods are free of experimental error. He works using Aristotelian science, working stuff out from pure reason, which brought you bangers like "men have more teeth than women". In Yud's case, most of his ideas are unfalsifiable to begin with, so why not have seventeen nines' worth of certainty in them? Literally can't be false! Not even AWS would promise these kinds of SLAs! permalink fedilink source parent [–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago Big Yud is homeschooled, unlike unwashed sheeple with their affordable public education permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago You might be comfortable using a single significant digit for any probabilities you pull out of your ass, but Yud 's methods are free of experimental error. He works using Aristotelian science, working stuff out from pure reason, which brought you bangers like "men have more teeth than women". In Yud's case, most of his ideas are unfalsifiable to begin with, so why not have seventeen nines' worth of certainty in them? Literally can't be false! Not even AWS would promise these kinds of SLAs! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago Big Yud is homeschooled, unlike unwashed sheeple with their affordable public education permalink fedilink source parent