army1987 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.