EE43026F comments on Rationality and Winning - Less Wrong

19 Post author: lukeprog 04 May 2012 06:31PM

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Comment author: EE43026F 04 May 2012 10:45:29PM *  3 points [-]

Also, while the prior probability of winning is (should be) higher in the rationality group, and lower outside, there are likely still many more winners outside the rationality group, because there are so many more people outside it than within. Making use of the availability heuristic to estimate "winning" and decide whether rationality pays off won't work well.