Okay, but I’ve also seen rationalists use point estimates for probability in a way that led them to mess up Bayes, and such that it would be clear if they recognized the probability was uncertain (e.g., I saw this a few times related to covid predictions). I feel like it’s weird to use “frequency” for something that will only happen (or not happen) once, like whether the first AGI will lead to human extinction, though ultimately I don’t really care what word people are using for which concept.
I think it’s less a mistake of using point estimates, but rather not realizing certain probabilities are correlated, so you can’t just multiply them out.
Okay, but I’ve also seen rationalists use point estimates for probability in a way that led them to mess up Bayes, and such that it would be clear if they recognized the probability was uncertain (e.g., I saw this a few times related to covid predictions). I feel like it’s weird to use “frequency” for something that will only happen (or not happen) once, like whether the first AGI will lead to human extinction, though ultimately I don’t really care what word people are using for which concept.
I think it’s less a mistake of using point estimates, but rather not realizing certain probabilities are correlated, so you can’t just multiply them out.