Incorrect comments on SotW: Check Consequentialism - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 March 2012 01:35AM

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Comment author: Incorrect 24 March 2012 04:58:51AM *  4 points [-]

To become a true rationalist one must shed the trappings of personhood. The rationalist's mind has no goal except rationality itself; no thought except the Bayesian update.. Only once you are free of worldly concerns and the concept of autonomy may you see the light of Bayes.

edit: Sorry, I was joking. I thought I was being ridiculous enough for it to be obvious.

Comment author: [deleted] 24 March 2012 01:20:26PM 3 points [-]

The rationalist's mind has no goal except rationality itself

I thought it had the goal of maximizing expected utility.

Comment author: orthonormal 24 March 2012 04:17:12PM 1 point [-]
Comment author: Incorrect 24 March 2012 07:01:33PM 3 points [-]

Sorry, I was joking. I thought I was being ridiculous enough for it to be obvious.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 April 2012 04:48:17PM 1 point [-]

Poe's law applies!

Comment author: Will_Newsome 24 March 2012 09:12:27PM *  3 points [-]

'Twas completely obvious to me. I mean seriously, "light of Bayes".

Comment author: orthonormal 24 March 2012 07:05:04PM 3 points [-]

I should have remembered that you've been around for a while, but bear in mind that the joke is just the sort of Straw Vulcan reasoning that some new people think Less Wrong obviously must subscribe to.

Comment author: handoflixue 29 March 2012 09:27:17PM 0 points [-]

laughs The username was a pretty obvious give-away, IMO :)

Comment author: fubarobfusco 24 March 2012 07:07:06AM -2 points [-]

Incorrect indeed.