Good-Story Bias

Created by steven0461 at 4y

Optimizing predictions for sounding good as stories, when nature optimizes for no such thing, creates a bias that Nick Bostrom has termed good-story bias. If a disaster kills off all sentient life quickly and without warning, that's a boring story and therefore one of which we might underestimate the plausibility.bias.

Optimizing predictions for sounding good as stories, when nature optimizes for no such thing, creates a bias that Nick Bostrom has termed good-story bias. If a disaster kills off all sentient life quickly and without warning, that's a boring story and therefore one of which we might underestimate the plausibility.

Optimizing predictions for sounding good as stories, when nature optimizes for no such thing, creates a bias that Nick Bostrom has termed good-story bias.