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177 – Decision Trees and Butlerian Jihads with Matt Freeman

The Bayesian Conspiracy

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Do Decision Trees Increase or Reduce Variance in Life Outcomes?

Conservative mindset is more like things that reduce variance in outcomes, especially for your offspring are good, and things that increase variance are bad. But this also seems to me like if you're doing these sorts of decision trees, it means that you are deviating from the default scripts. Maybe? Yeah, in the sense that you're likely to stop making decisions out of inertia.

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