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

30 Post author: TheOtherDave 04 January 2012 06:58PM

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Comment author: prase 06 January 2012 11:30:06AM 0 points [-]

Did he give any explanation why such a silly thing would be rational? Does he exhibit similar weird interpretations of "rationality" or other words on other occasions, or was his insistence only a result of his inability to change mind, even if it means insisting on clearly unreasonable random guesses?

Comment author: ahartell 06 January 2012 08:04:07PM 0 points [-]

His definition of rational was something like "getting to the truth with highest possible accuracy" but may have even been "getting to the truth 100% of the time".