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185 – The Rise and Fall of Peer Review, with Adam Mastroianni

The Bayesian Conspiracy

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The Probability Experiment

Stephen: People get more rational the higher the stakes are when we tried to do a particular game that was um in the less wrong post with each other on the third try. In real life if you do this with small pennies like we talked about or like I speculated during the episode no one really gives a shit so yeah it turns out, he says. The money became too real that there were actual stakes rather than fake onesYeah for the second role I actually had cash and that made it easier to visualize as well.

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