pkrafft

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   by pkrafft 10y ago

   Lots of good ideas here. Trust in social information, and which social information you trust are super interesting questions that I would love to do more work on. It's possible that it's something along the lines you say. Anothe
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   by pkrafft 10y ago

   My hope would be as an explanatory tool.
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   by pkrafft 10y ago

   Thanks! The model predicts that areas in which there is little evidence one way or the other available are the ones where incorrect beliefs could be sustained, particularly when the belief is held by those around you. I guess one interestin
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   by pkrafft 10y ago

   The predictions of the model I have thought about regarding this question are fairly intuitive. Exposure to evidence is important. Integrating networks is likely important, too, though I haven't done those simulations yet.
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   by pkrafft 10y ago

   Great question. I'm kind of shooting in the dark on this one, but Bayesian inference does function as a probabilistic generalization of propositional logic, so in principle it seems like the framework should be able to accommodate at l
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   by pkrafft 10y ago

   Thanks! The collective intelligence task in this case is for the community on the site to identify who are the best traders to be mimicking. It's not an explicit group goal, but we are treating it as an implicit one. I wouldn't sa
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   by pkrafft 10y ago

   I'm the first author of this paper if anyone has any questions!