Comment on Summary of "The Straw Vulcan"

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 15:47:03 GMT

Any situation where you need to come up with an answer more quickly than you are capable of will get you the wrong answer pretty consistently if you are rational (because your best shot is to guess).

In situations where spending too much time to choose is worse than choosing sub-optimally in a short time, then guessing is rational. It's addressed by SVP#2 in the post. Being “rational” in your sense of the word in such a situation is failing the twelfth virtue.

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