AnnaSalamon comments on Branches of rationality - Less Wrong

75 Post author: AnnaSalamon 12 January 2011 03:24AM

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Comment author: AnnaSalamon 12 January 2011 11:34:55AM 0 points [-]

... instrumental rationality (what your post after numbers 1 2 and 3 seems to be focused on) ...

5 and 6 are straight-forwardly about forming accurate beliefs. Much of 4 is also part of epistemic rationality, insofar as epistemic rationality is furthered by finding the few questions that can really improve one's total picture of the world, and e.g. understanding evolution, or what the multiverse is like, instead of learning more random details about fruit flies.