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There are many ways you might approach being less wrong. • A popular one is to make fewer wrong statements; to say fewer wrong things. …
x Say Wrong Things — LessWrong Babble and Prune Underconfidence Communication Cultures Practical World Modeling Frontpage 119 Say Wrong Things by Gordon Seidoh Worley 24th May 2019 5 min read 13 119 There are many ways you might approach being less wrong. A popular one is to make fewer wrong statements; to say fewer wrong things. Naively it would seem this is a recipe for success, since you just say more things that are true and right and fewer things that are false and wrong. But if Goodhart has anything to say about it, and he does , you'll find ways to maximize the measure at the expense of
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