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Comment author: cousin_it 31 January 2012 01:32:48PM *  2 points [-]

What atucker said. Someone who falls prey to the Allais paradox can't be Bayesian-rational. Someone who values love, can.

To everyone who proposes to examine the causal origins of human urges: can you try to make that idea more precise? How far back do you go? What if the causal origin is some natural process that doesn't seem to have goals?