steven0461 comments on Rational Me or We? - Less Wrong

116 Post author: RobinHanson 17 March 2009 01:39PM

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Comment author: steven0461 17 March 2009 05:26:31PM 6 points [-]

No, you should still be swayed, you just shouldn't represent the swaying as being independent analysis. You also should take into account that the opinions of other group members may have been caused by swaying rather than independent analysis, but that was already true in the individual accuracy case.

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 March 2009 10:04:10PM 0 points [-]

Roko, when you run into a case of "group win / individual loss" on epistemic rationality you should consider that a Can't Happen, like violating conservation of momentum or something.

In this case, you need to communicate one kind of information (likelihood ratios) and update on the product of those likelihood ratios, rather than trying to communicate the final belief. But the Can't Happen is a general rule.

Comment author: MichaelHoward 18 March 2009 10:47:07PM 1 point [-]

Roko, when you run into a case of "group win / individual loss" on epistemic rationality you should consider that a Can't Happen, like violating conservation of momentum or something.

Really!? No exceptions?

This doesn't feel right. If it is right, it sounds important. Please could you elaborate?