A Sketch of Good Communication — LessWrong
Often you can compare your own Fermi estimates with those of other people, and that’s sort of cool, but what’s way more interesting is when they shar…
x A Sketch of Good Communication — LessWrong Share Models, Not Beliefs Anticipated Experiences Conversation (topic) Disagreement Underconfidence Gears-Level Modest Epistemology Rationality Practical World Modeling Curated 216 A Sketch of Good Communication by Ben Pace 31st Mar 2018 4 min read 37 216 "Often I compare my own Fermi estimates with those of other people, and that’s sort of cool, but what’s way more interesting is when they share what variables and models they used to get to the estimate." – Oliver Habryka , at a model building workshop at FHI in 2016 One question that people in the
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