Jonii comments on Deciding on our rationality focus - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 22 July 2009 06:27AM

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Comment author: Jonii 22 July 2009 06:52:39AM 3 points [-]

I thought of making a post of agreeing and disagreeing(and overall discussion), but then I encountered same kinda problem: I wasn't sure if it was on-topic, and when thinking further, I had trouble pin-pointing the exact topic I should be posting things on.

I'm still going to make that post, though. Eventually. I trust that you'll protect your garden, on case that one of the many possible things goes wrong.

My two cents on the actual topic here(Disclaimer, I'm a newb): I think difference with i and e is kinda like math and physics. Even if you knew everything about the world as it is(complete understanding of the physics), you'd wanna have efficient math to make use of that information. And even if you have all the mathematical understanding there ever could be, but you lacked any information about the world, the math would be useless. Winning is everything, and for that you need both instrumental and epistemic rationality.