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by simianwords 384 days ago
according to you, if a human makes a prediction with some probability estimate it is useless because the estimate itself is inaccurate (hence probability "estimate"). in reality nothing needs to be 100% accurate for it to be useful including the estimate of probability itself.
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It's weird to make an assumption about OPs position and argue with that instead of what they actually wrote.

Also, why make it so personal? I think it was a fair question to ask - you didn't answer how it works - just got weirdly defensive about it.

hey that was not my intention, it was to bring to light that we assign probability estimates ourselves to our own predictions despite the estimates being not 100% accurate.