Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 April 2009 12:20:09PM 4 points [-]

I also think the big decisions are the ones it's hardest to apply extreme rationality to, both because the emotional stakes are so high and because by the time we make them we've already made a pile of smaller decisions that have tipped us in one or the other direction.

I spend a fair amount of time taking aim at directly this phenomenon, y'know. Summarized in Crisis of Faith.

I predict not-significantly-different statistics for people who have trained in extreme rationality, though without a very high degree of confidence.

Because the technique as described is too hard for mortals to use, or because the technique as described is inadequate?