pedanterrific comments on Practicing what you preach - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pedanterrific 25 October 2011 06:03:40AM *  1 point [-]

While it's fair to not assume I am familiar with everything Eliezer's ever said or written, the mere fact that he is the source of the statement has no bearing on whether it is valid or not. Appeals to authority are always fallacious; arguments stand or fall on their own.

Again, I am not advocating that position. I am not stating that it is valid. I am most certainly not stating that it is valid because Eliezer wrote it. I simply thought your response indicated that you were not aware that "Rational behaviour is whatever makes you win" was a reference to an established ideology, not meant to be a wholly sufficient and self-contained argument for that conclusion. So I provided you a link to a summary of that ideology.

I apologize for any miscommunication.