TheOtherDave comments on Raising the Sanity Waterline - Less Wrong

112 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 March 2009 04:28AM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 21 February 2011 11:41:51AM 0 points [-]

How manipulable do you find the determinedly irrational in practice?

Mostly I just find them deeply painful and try to avoid dealing with them except by occasionally poking them with sticks.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 21 February 2011 03:59:28PM 2 points [-]

Depends on what I'm trying to get them to do, and how well I understand the framework of their irrationality. In many cases, I find them highly manipulable; in other cases, not at all.