PhilGoetz comments on Rationality Quotes September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 11 September 2011 02:53:32PM 36 points [-]

Again and again, I’ve undergone the humbling experience of first lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the crucial insight that its not sucking wouldn’t have been a Nash equilibrium.

--Scott Aaronson

Comment author: PhilGoetz 11 September 2011 07:07:13PM 1 point [-]

Interesting! Examples?

Comment author: gwern 11 September 2011 07:28:40PM *  3 points [-]

The whole link is basically a tissue of suggested examples by Aaronson and commenters.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 15 September 2011 10:20:49PM 0 points [-]

I like that quote, but the rest of the article seems to be just restating obvious collective action problems. Not sure where he gets the "Whole ideaologies have been built around ignoring these" bit.

Comment author: shokwave 25 September 2011 08:38:41AM 6 points [-]

Everyone doing nothing in a collective action problem is a Nash equilibrium, I believe.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 12 March 2012 10:36:22PM 3 points [-]

Most of the relevant ideologies in question are ideologies that try to avoid this problem in economic contexts.

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