Annoyance comments on Striving to Accept - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 March 2009 11:29PM

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Comment author: Annoyance 10 March 2009 09:32:23PM 2 points [-]

"Btw. my definition of rational here is: whatever makes you win."

That's not a very useful definition. Aside from being purely Consequentialist, it means that we can't say whether a strategy is 'rational' unless we know whether it will work out, and that sort of knowledge is very difficult to acquire.