Jayson_Virissimo comments on Some potential dangers of rationality training - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 25 January 2012 12:00:15PM *  0 points [-]

The probability of random irrational behavior being optimal is extremely low. The space of behaviors is super huge.

Our behaviors based on system 1 judgments aren't "random"; they are likely psychological adaptions that were ESS's in the ancestral environment.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 January 2012 07:13:53PM 0 points [-]

ok good point. It's still not optimal tho. And if it does work (not optimal, just works), that means it's got some rational core to it that we can discover and purify.