Vladimir_Nesov comments on Let There Be Light - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Alicorn 17 March 2010 07:35PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 19 March 2010 03:16:22PM *  1 point [-]

Not acting on reasons to be epistemically irrational seems like a good injunction. It however shouldn't prevent people from considering whether a given way of being epistemically irrational is instrumentally rational. Injunctions themselves are a way of guarding instrumental rationality from misguided acts of epistemic rationality. In this case, the principle is applied in reverse.