Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Ingredients of Timeless Decision Theory - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 August 2009 01:10AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 August 2009 11:09:15PM 0 points [-]

(Though I think the paper was trying to use dispositions to define "rationality" more than to implement an agent that would consistently carry out those dispositions?)

Comment author: Gary_Drescher 19 August 2009 11:34:21PM 1 point [-]

I didn't really get the purpose of the paper's analysis of "rationality talk". Ultimately, as I understood the paper, it was making a prescriptive argument about how people (as actually implemented) should behave in the scenarios presented (i.e, the "rational" way for them to behave).