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Underconfidence

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Underconfidence is the state of being more uncertain than is justified, given your priors and the evidence you are aware of.

Blog posts

See also

The Sin of Underconfidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Apr 2009 6:30 UTC
103 points
187 comments6 min readLW link

Say Wrong Things

Gordon Seidoh Worley24 May 2019 22:11 UTC
115 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Ir­ra­tional Modesty

Tomás B.20 Jun 2021 19:38 UTC
142 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

A note about cal­ibra­tion of confidence

jbay4 Jan 2016 6:57 UTC
18 points
35 comments8 min readLW link

Against Modest Epistemology

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Nov 2017 20:40 UTC
71 points
48 comments15 min readLW link

The Im­por­tance of Self-Doubt

multifoliaterose19 Aug 2010 22:47 UTC
28 points
746 comments10 min readLW link

Against Shoot­ing Your­self in the Foot

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Nov 2017 20:13 UTC
47 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

How con­fi­dent should we be?

[deleted]1 Jan 2012 15:57 UTC
12 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

The Limits of In­tel­li­gence and Me: Do­main Expertise

ChrisHallquist7 Dec 2013 8:23 UTC
45 points
79 comments5 min readLW link

Si­mul­ta­neous Over­con­fi­dence and Underconfidence

abramdemski3 Jun 2015 21:04 UTC
37 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

Sta­tus Reg­u­la­tion and Anx­ious Underconfidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Nov 2017 19:35 UTC
83 points
18 comments21 min readLW link

A Sketch of Good Communication

Ben Pace31 Mar 2018 22:48 UTC
201 points
35 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Think­ing with­out pri­ors?

Q Home2 Aug 2022 9:17 UTC
7 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

The un­der­ap­pre­ci­ated value of origi­nal think­ing be­low the frontier

Emrik2 Oct 2021 16:03 UTC
36 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Buf­falo buf­falo Buf­falo buf­falo buf­falo buf­falo Buf­falo buf­falo.

silentbob17 Oct 2023 11:36 UTC
16 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
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