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by conistonwater 3452 days ago
You're right, I would have liked them to report posterior probabilities, but those were p-values instead.

> It would be more honest to say that it's very unlikely that bot is better than humans

I don't think the analogy is sound. Consider the alternative: over a long match, the humans failed to beat the bot convincingly. But in any case, the examples he gives are so wide of the mark that it's clear this isn't the sort of argument he's making—he talks about "spin" and stuff.