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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.
laughs The username was a pretty obvious give-away, IMO :)
Um, no.
Sorry, I was joking. I thought I was being ridiculous enough for it to be obvious.
Poe's law applies!
'Twas completely obvious to me. I mean seriously, "light of Bayes".
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.
I thought it had the goal of maximizing expected utility.
Incorrect indeed.