Have you ever lost confidence in LW after a similar experience? Maybe something where it seemed to you people were “talking a big game” but failing to apply any of that to actually win in real life?
As a stats / machine learning person, a lot of the “Bayesian statistics” talk around here is pretty cringe-inducing. My impresion is that physicists probably feel similarly about “many-worlds” discussions. I think LessWrong unfortunately causes people to believe that being a dilettante is enough to merit a confident opinion on a subject.
One of the most annoying things to me about Eliezer is how much is writing style is bombastic and hyperconfident and how it’s encouraged here to talk like that despite the entire point of probabilistic reasoning being to NEVER be 100 percent certain of things.
As a stats / machine learning person, a lot of the “Bayesian statistics” talk around here is pretty cringe-inducing. My impresion is that physicists probably feel similarly about “many-worlds” discussions. I think LessWrong unfortunately causes people to believe that being a dilettante is enough to merit a confident opinion on a subject.
One of the most annoying things to me about Eliezer is how much is writing style is bombastic and hyperconfident and how it’s encouraged here to talk like that despite the entire point of probabilistic reasoning being to NEVER be 100 percent certain of things.