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fnqi8ckfek
544 days ago
How do those confidence levels work? It looks to me you're just assigning probabilities to outcomes.
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yunwal
544 days ago
I think it's roughly: "I would bet 9$ to your $1 that this happens", although some of these are vague enough that you couldn't objectively determine whether the bet materialized.
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fnqi8ckfek
542 days ago
So they aren't confidence levels. They're odds, but he's trying to sound sophisticated.
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