JGWeissman comments on Individual vs. Group Epistemic Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JGWeissman 03 March 2010 06:14:06AM 1 point [-]

Perhaps a member of a well organized group of bounded rationalists could, without deviating from probabilities ey would have as an individual rationalist, promote to active consideration certain theories with a lower probability than ey otherwise would actively consider, on the basis that the organization of the group systematically assigns different theories with similar low probabilities to other group members, such that if any member finds that the probability for one of eir assigned theories increases past a certain threshold, it can be promoted for the entire group's consideration, by presentation of the accumulated evidence.

This sort of arrangement should allow use of the parallel processing available by having many group members, without requiring the members to give up individual rationality.