Yep. It’s hard or impossible to know in advance what will catch fire, so the safest thing is to just post things to LW, Hacker News, and a relevant subreddit. I’m usually too lazy to.
I should have posted it over at Hacker News and get +103 karma instead of −1 :-)
You could have got positive karma here too if you didn’t present it incorrectly as a challenge to:
If it ever turns out that Bayes fails—receives systematically lower rewards on some problem, relative to a superior alternative, in virtue of its mere decisions—then Bayes has to go out the window.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky, Newcomb’s Problem and Regret of Rationality
You could have got positive karma here too if you didn’t present it incorrectly as a challenge to...
As a “challenge to”? I incorrectly assumed that it is a good example in support of something Eliezer said, namely that you choose the winning way and not your favorite heuristic.
As a “challenge to”? I incorrectly assumed that it is a good example in support of something Eliezer said, namely that you choose the winning way and not your favorite heuristic.
I suppose it would actually be a support of Eliezer’s ‘choose the winning way’ theme while simultaneously undermining everything he said about probability theory.
Either way, it is the incorrect framing not just the location that dampened reception here.
I should have posted it over at Hacker News and get +103 karma instead of −1 :-)
Yep. It’s hard or impossible to know in advance what will catch fire, so the safest thing is to just post things to LW, Hacker News, and a relevant subreddit. I’m usually too lazy to.
You could have got positive karma here too if you didn’t present it incorrectly as a challenge to:
As a “challenge to”? I incorrectly assumed that it is a good example in support of something Eliezer said, namely that you choose the winning way and not your favorite heuristic.
I suppose it would actually be a support of Eliezer’s ‘choose the winning way’ theme while simultaneously undermining everything he said about probability theory.
Either way, it is the incorrect framing not just the location that dampened reception here.