Wei_Dai comments on Rationality Case Study - Ad-36 - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Perplexed 22 September 2010 06:32PM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 22 September 2010 07:09:42PM 10 points [-]

There is a widespread belief here that we pretty much have epistemic rationality nailed here.

Really? I don't have that sense. Take a look at A Request for Open Problems and note that the top 4 suggestions (by comment rating) are all about epistemic rationality.

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 22 September 2010 07:33:53PM 3 points [-]

Or maybe we're so far behind on instrumental rationality we don't even know the right questions yet! Or maybe the request for "well-defined" questions creates a bias toward epistemic rationality.

Comment author: timtyler 23 September 2010 08:57:43AM *  1 point [-]

We don't have epistemic rationality nailed well enough to create an oracle. So, we certainly don't have it very well "nailed".

Comment author: Perplexed 22 September 2010 07:26:39PM 0 points [-]

Thx for the link. I hadn't seen that discussion.