Tyrrell_McAllister comments on High Status and Stupidity: Why? - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 January 2010 04:36PM

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 13 January 2010 05:36:59PM 1 point [-]

So you don't think there is an actual fact of the matter in regards to your status (or anyone else's presumably).

I don't think so. But the state of "status-seeking" is not a belief.

Also, many different brain states can embody the same accurate belief. Eliezer probably wants to have an accurate belief about his status-level. He just doesn't want his brain to "implement" that belief in a certain way that he suspects would impair his intelligence.