Nate Silver and his team at FiveThirtyEight might never have heard of Less Wrong, but they do exemplary Bayesian reasoning at length and in depth, on lot of current topics. They’re especially great at branching from current topics of interest into discussions of rational analysis.
I just read most of Signal and the Noise, and he brings up Overcoming Bias and interviewed Robin Hanson, and then his next chapter is about being “less wrong” (he specifically and repeatedly uses this phrase) when using bayesian reasoning. Is this a coincidence?
Probably not a coincidence. He also recently linked to SlateStarCodex twice and he has Leah Libresco on the team. I didn’t know any of that when I wrote the comment above.
Nate Silver and his team at FiveThirtyEight might never have heard of Less Wrong, but they do exemplary Bayesian reasoning at length and in depth, on lot of current topics. They’re especially great at branching from current topics of interest into discussions of rational analysis.
I just read most of Signal and the Noise, and he brings up Overcoming Bias and interviewed Robin Hanson, and then his next chapter is about being “less wrong” (he specifically and repeatedly uses this phrase) when using bayesian reasoning. Is this a coincidence?
Probably not a coincidence. He also recently linked to SlateStarCodex twice and he has Leah Libresco on the team. I didn’t know any of that when I wrote the comment above.