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0 And 1 Are Not Probabilities
AndrewS2y10

When you work in log odds, the distance between any two degrees of uncertainty equals the amount of evidence you would need to go from one to the other.

What does "amount of evidence" in this sentence is supposed to mean? Is it the same idea that "bits of evidence" mentioned in these posts previously?

The only way I can interpret this sentence as a definition of "amount of evidence", but then I don't understand what's the point of highlighting the sentence as if it's saying something more significant.

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The Simple Truth
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The Simple Truth
AndrewS2y10

Around a tenth of the times I turn in early, I find a dead sheep the next morning.

I don't know if that's nitpicking, but the fact that protagonist of the story talks about a fraction of the times before even being able to count sheep is mildly amusing

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Making History Available
AndrewS2y10

I should try to think as if everything I read about in history books had actually happened to me.

It looks to me that this requires to consciously force yourself to believe the historical events to have happened in the exact way the material you're reading describes them; which is basically leaning into a fallacy "comprehending an argument tends to make people believe it" as described in an experiment in this post

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Focus Your Uncertainty
AndrewS2y10

You wouldn’t want to inappropriately transfer thinking skills from one context to another.

The link in this sentence is broken

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Preface
AndrewS2y152

Today the Center for Applied Rationality is working on repairing this huge mistake of mine in a more systematic fashion.

Given that the post was written 8 years ago, was "this huge mistake" repaired?

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