TheCosmist comments on Verifying Rationality via RationalPoker.com - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheCosmist 28 March 2011 11:44:30PM *  1 point [-]

Online poker is the most brutal rationality test I know of. As a one time “semi-professional” player, I experienced things which really strained my capacity to believe in a random universe. It would be amusing to watch someone like Eliezer Yudkowsky play poker; I can easily imagine him becoming an emotional, superstitious nut throwing keyboards against the wall like almost everyone else who plays poker long enough!

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 28 March 2011 11:59:07PM *  3 points [-]

Well, if you can explain every outcome, you have zero knowledge. And your ignorance about Eliezer Yudkowsky is a fact about you, not a fact about Eliezer Yudkowsky. :-)