Re:OpenAI claims Gold-medal performance at IMO 2025
by ben_w on Saturday July 19, 2025 @04:31PM
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> It could be just a personal mental weakness with numbers with me that is not general, but looking at my interlocutors emotional reactions to their own numerical predictions I do feel quite strongly that this is a general human trait.
Your feeling is correct; anchoring is a thing, and good LessWrongers (I hope to be in that category) know this and keep track of where their prior and not just posterior probabilities come from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_effect
Probably don't in practice, but should. That "should" is what puts the "less" into "less wrong".
Your feeling is correct; anchoring is a thing, and good LessWrongers (I hope to be in that category) know this and keep track of where their prior and not just posterior probabilities come from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_effect
Probably don't in practice, but should. That "should" is what puts the "less" into "less wrong".