Well-cal­ibrated probabilities

WikiLast edit: 18 Dec 2015 22:20 UTC by Eliezer Yudkowsky

A system of probability assignments is “well-calibrated” if things to which it assigns 70% probability, happen around 70% of the time. This is the goal to which bounded rationalists aspire—not to perfectly predict everything, but to be no more or less certain than our information warrants.

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