ViEtArmis comments on The Power of Positivist Thinking - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ViEtArmis 20 July 2012 01:58:09PM 4 points [-]

"Rationalists should win," mathematical tautology. Perfectly rational bayesian expected utility maximizers do just that. As humans, it is a good heuristic to avoid privileged rituals of thought.

There can be value in tautology for the purpose of drawing attention to an important point: "oh, I'm not winning, I am not a rationalist, then."

Comment author: [deleted] 20 July 2012 07:14:03PM 1 point [-]

Exactly. When you are currently not holding one million dollars from one-boxing, then you are being irrational (assuming monotonically increasing utility from money), and should self-modify accordingly.