Annoyance comments on Issues, Bugs, and Requested Features - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 February 2009 04:45PM

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Comment author: Annoyance 18 March 2009 08:28:43PM 1 point [-]

"You said yourself that someone behaving irrationally has unpredictable behavior."

No, I didn't. Someone can be irrational, yet completely predictable and consistent. Go back and re-read what I said - you haven't understood it.

"This analysis obviously assumes that there isn't a systemic bias in the mix"

We're dealing with human beings. There are ALWAYS systemic biases involved.

Comment author: thomblake 19 March 2009 02:32:44PM 1 point [-]

You're right - re-reading, I meant to say "people behaving irrationally have collectively unpredictable behavior", to which I assumed you would agree. I was extrapolating that from here:

Irrational thought patterns can be nearly anything, so there's no way to specify an argument that will convince everyone.

I had also argued in the past that one could construct arguments that would convince most people since they're probably irrational in predictable ways, and you disagreed.