someDude comments on Whining-Based Communities - Less Wrong

59 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 April 2009 08:31PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 April 2009 11:13:49PM 4 points [-]

I would agree but put "rationality" in quote marks, that is, it is the subject of the discipline named "rationality" to find rational strategies.

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 07 April 2009 11:49:08PM 1 point [-]

I would agree but put "rationality" in quote marks, that is, it is the subject of the discipline named "rationality" to find rational strategies.

Did you mean "to find winning strategies", or are you using those synonymously?

Either way, I agree with the reference/value distinction here.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 April 2009 12:18:15AM 3 points [-]

I guess I was trying to make a side point by using the two as though they were synonymous. Maybe the precise way would be that "instrumental rationality" is the study of systematically winning strategies, just like "epistemic rationality" is the study of systematically accurate guessing.