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It is meaningless to put any number on an event like this. Unless you can find the very large number of universes where that same situation arises, you can never know if you were right.

Maybe a prediction market-based approach can weigh the beliefs of people about the event, but that doesn't mean it's a real probability.

Probability theory has given people the mistaken belief that everything is like a card or dice game. It isn't.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Morgenster...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference

Maybe everything's not a card game, but you really don't want to find yourself in a situation that isn't.


the article was about brake emissions. Yet you're pointing to an article about tires.


comment I was responding to:

> If we remove tailpipe emissions, which are by far the largest, then brake/tire wear emissions become visible and are next in the list to deal with.

(clearly claiming that tailpipe emissions are by far larger than both brake and tire emissions)


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