Swimmer963 comments on Rationally Irrational - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Swimmer963 07 March 2012 07:59:49PM 8 points [-]

Reminds me of this chapter from Eliezer's fanfiction. "Winning" in the naive, common-usage-of-the-word sense doesn't always result in better accomplishing your goals, and it is sometimes "rational" to lose, which means that losing is sometimes "winning" in the LW/rationality sense.

Words are confusing sometimes!