Vladimir_Nesov comments on Dead Aid - Less Wrong

1 Post author: PhilGoetz 17 March 2009 02:51PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 17 March 2009 05:06:03PM *  0 points [-]

politics is an applied topic in rationality, as is economics and maximizing your return on (selfish or altruistic) investment, both also topics of this post.

Every aspect of human activity is an applied topic in instrumental rationality. Unless the discussion is explicitly concerned with the feedback from the specific applications to the much more general techniques, it must be considered off-topic, otherwise the discussion will deteriorate into "general talk", even if of highly rational variety.