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Re: "First, foremost, fundamentally, above all else: Rational agents should WIN."
In an attempt to summarise the objections, there seem to be two fairly-fundamental problems:
Rational agents try. They cannot necessarily win: winning is an outcome, not an action;
"Winning" is a poor synonym for "increasing utility": sometimes agents should minimise their losses.
"Rationalists maximise expected utility" would be a less controversial formulation.
But, alas, less catchy.
As contagious memes go, "rationalists should win" seems to be rather pathogenic to me. A proposed rationalist slogan shouldn't need so many footnotes. For the sake of minds everywhere, I think it would be best to try to kill it off in its early stages.