Lightwave comments on Open Thread: July 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lightwave 02 July 2009 05:50:32PM 8 points [-]

I would suggest that most people here are rational enough in terms of epistemic rationality, but their instrumental rationality is lagging behind, if I may call it this way. Hence the need for self-improvement stuff.

Once you reach a certain level of epistemic rationality, you realize that what you want next is not more refined epistemic rationality (that would be sub-optimal), you'd rather have.. more winning.