Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Two-Tier Rationalism - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Alicorn 17 April 2009 07:44PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 April 2009 04:59:40AM 7 points [-]

That's why I cut at "and my goal is to be rational". Instrumental rationality is systematized winning, winning is steering the future into regions that are higher in your preference ordering. If the possession of truth is also fun, that's just secondary fuel for our epistemic rationality.