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Better Babblers - by Robin Hanson - Overcoming Bias

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You can think of knowing how to write as knowing how to correlate words.

Better Babblers Robin Hanson Mar 21, 2017 8 25 3 Share You can think of knowing how to write as knowing how to correlate words. Given no words, what first word should you write. Then given one word, what second word best correlates with that. Then given two words, what third word best fits with those two. And so on. Thus your knowledge of how to write can be broken into what you know at these different correlation orders: one word, two words, three words, and so on. Each time you pick a new word you can combine knowledge at these different orders, by weighing all their different recommendation

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