Will_Sawin comments on Rationalists lose when others choose - Less Wrong

-10 Post author: PhilGoetz 16 June 2009 05:50PM

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 01 January 2011 05:52:53PM 0 points [-]

Even if Phil's specific examples don't work, the general point does. There exists a situation in which rationality must lose:

An agent, because it is irrational or has strange motivations or for another reason, chooses to reward those agents that are irrational and punish those that are rational. It is smart enough to tell the difference.