Will_Sawin comments on Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment - Less Wrong

26 Post author: badger 28 May 2011 05:15AM

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Comment author: Threedee 28 May 2011 10:09:05PM 0 points [-]

This is a more general question than just about Strategic Reliabilism. Obviously, many decisions occur in a social context in which the majority of other people do not necessarily, or even usually, behave based on rational strategies. Given that any strategy a rationalist chooses to use interacts with, or even depends on the irrational behavior of those other people, how can such irrationality be factored into a rationalist-based decision? Perhaps this question is a restatement of: Nothing is Foolproof!

Comment author: Will_Sawin 29 May 2011 12:37:11AM 1 point [-]
  1. Determine what you want other people to do
  2. Use your best understanding of human behavior, both rational and irrational, to guess what circumstances will cause them to do that
  3. Determine how you might be able to cause those circumstances
  4. Weigh that against the other costs & benefits of those actions.