Jonathan_Graehl comments on Compartmentalization in epistemic and instrumental rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 18 September 2010 03:32:11AM 2 points [-]

The level of mental unity (I prefer this to "decompartmentalization") that makes it impossible to focus productively on a learnable physical/computational performance task, is fortunately impossible to achieve, or at least easy to temporarily drop.