peter_hurford comments on [META] 'Rational' vs 'Optimized' - Less Wrong

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Comment author: peter_hurford 04 January 2012 07:24:41PM 1 point [-]

Prior to LessWrong, I always remembered rational as meaning "free of logical fallacy". A perfectly rational person was someone who, when given a group of premises, would always derive every logically valid conclusion possible from that set, and never derive a logically invalid one.