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

22 Post author: Wei_Dai 02 March 2010 09:46PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 March 2010 07:12:56PM 4 points [-]

Wedifred's remarks above seem obvious to me. Furthermore, your reply seems to consist of "for some reason a group cannot solve a coordination problem rationally, but if I suppose that they are allowed to take the same action that a rational group would perform for irrational reasons only, then the irrational group wins".