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

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Comment author: Peter_de_Blanc 13 October 2009 08:28:20PM 8 points [-]

Oh, come on. Show me a human whose actions aren't severely suboptimal for their belief set.

Comment author: SilasBarta 13 October 2009 08:52:03PM 2 points [-]

Fair point, but here the difference is the most obvious, if the professed beliefs accurately represent their internal predictive model of reality, which I claim it doesn't.