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by JoshCole 1434 days ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html is contextually relevant to the point you don't understand the meaning of. They are operating in an abstracted representation of the situation related to what Paul Graham talks about. In that abstracted representation you get some not so obvious corollaries: a deep relationship between confidence and the reasonableness of default alive versus default dead strategy.