SoullessAutomaton comments on Beware of Other-Optimizing - Less Wrong

79 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 April 2009 01:58AM

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Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 10 April 2009 01:35:21PM 4 points [-]

I had a friend in graduate school that had a mental breakdown and lost most of her short-cuts. It was a really amazing thing to watch her make decisions from ground zero. I think she appreciated the experience because, to a large extent, she had the opportunity to pick and choose which new short-cuts to assimilate. As an intelligent adult that was more or less X-rational, she proceeded in a very systematic way. The result was a very efficient but strange (e.g., oddly non-organic) decision making process.

Are you still in contact with this person, and would she have any interest in LW? It seems that experience might provide some fairly unique insights.

Comment author: byrnema 10 April 2009 01:58:32PM *  5 points [-]

Indeed. She is the most X-rational person I know of (that I've met in person). Also, she is a mathematician. I will invite her!