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by jncfhnb 191 days ago
but that’s all consistent. “Expected” gain is less than 1 for the truth booths and sometimes > 1 for actuals; and is > 1 on expected value of the match ups, which aren’t binary questions.
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Sure, and the issue is that the article says "Suppose we have calculated the expected information gained by potential truth booths like below:" and then lists some values >1

edit: just saw that the article fixed this recently, and the values are now <1