rhollerith comments on The Most Important Thing You Learned - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 February 2009 08:15PM

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Comment author: JulianMorrison 28 February 2009 01:21:04AM 15 points [-]

"A rationalist should win". Very high-level meta-advice and almost impossible to directly apply, but it keeps me oriented.

Comment author: MichaelBishop 12 March 2009 05:26:40PM 1 point [-]

I agree that, on average, improvements in rationality lead to more winning, but I'm not convinced that every improvement in rationality does. It seems possible that a non-trivial number make winning harder.