up:: Tags:: #🌱 # Wittgenstein’s ruler "Unless you have confidence in the ruler’s reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler. The less you trust the ruler‘s reliability (in probability called the prior), the more information you are getting about the ruler and the less about the table." - [[Fooled by Randomness]] This mechanism is known as Wittgenstein's ruler. Only with people that are extremely reliable (consistent) in their values can you be sure of the information intended by someone in contrast to revealing more about the author. Usually higher qualified reviewers will talk about objective metrics of information they as assessing in contrast to aspects of themselves. Our emotional systems don't intuitively understand this heuristic. For example, a compliment is always pleasurable regardless of its authorship. Related: ___ # Resources