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Discussion article for the meetup : Garden grove meetup WHEN: 22 May 2012 07:18:15PM (-0700) WHERE: Brookhurst and Garden Grove 101

We're having another SoCal LessWrong meetup this Saturday, the 26th. It'll be held in the upstairs meeting area at this IHOP in Irvine. It w

We're having the third SoCal LessWrong meetup this Saturday, the 23rd. It'll be held at this IHOP in Irvine, from 1PM to 8PM, in the upstair

Suppose I hand you a series of data points without providing the context. Consider the theory v = a*t for t<<1, v = b for t>>1. Without know

The majority of people would hold more accurate beliefs if they simply believed the majority. To state this in a way that doesn't risk infor

Unfortunately, we are kludged together, and we can't just look up our probability estimates in a register somewhere when someone asks us "Ho

Response to: When (Not) To Use Probabilities “It appears to be a quite general principle that, whenever there is a randomized way of doing