Re:Some advice from Jeff Bezos
by tspiteri on Friday October 19, 2012 @02:47PM
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The hypothetical cleverest, most correct person possible would be right 100% of the time and therefore would never change their opinion because changing it would go from right to wrong.
A subtly different view: The hypothetical cleverest, most correct person possible would be right close to 100% of the time because they would change any wrong opinion almost immediately.
And with this view, the closer you are to that person, the better you really are.
Re:Some advice from Jeff Bezos
by corin_ on Friday October 19, 2012 @02:50PM
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That's a much more realistic cleverest person, but in terms of hypotheticals it is clearly better to be right 100% of the time than to almost immediately change your opinion the 1% of the time you start off wrong.
A subtly different view: The hypothetical cleverest, most correct person possible would be right close to 100% of the time because they would change any wrong opinion almost immediately.
And with this view, the closer you are to that person, the better you really are.