hegemonicon comments on Anticipation vs. Faith: At What Cost Rationality? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hegemonicon 13 October 2009 02:28:29PM *  7 points [-]

Upvoted. To extend Eliezer's favorite metaphor, rationality makes it easy to get where you're going by making the map closely match the territory, but merely having a good map won't tell you where you want to go.