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RobinHanson's avatar

Surely that problem exists just as strongly today with the explanations that humans offer to each other. So this new system wouldn't be any worse.

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Andrew Lohn's avatar

Very fun and very important topic. Several reasons come to mind for wanting an explanation. At a high level, the ones I'm thinking of can be tossed into one of these two categories.1) To transfer understanding (not just knowledge) to people2) To provide comfort that an estimate is justifiable

It seems that since this method is trying to select an answer that gets chosen by a judge, it searches out the most satisfying explanation (#2) vice the most accurate or most informative explanation (#1).

Some of that could surely be alleviated by not disclosing the judge, but I'm concerned that there are human biases which help determine what a judge will find satisfying which could be exploited by the market at the expense of accuracy. Thoughts?

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