Cyan comments on Instrumental vs. Epistemic -- A Bardic Perspective - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan 27 April 2009 12:30:05AM 2 points [-]

If you want your rationality to protect something, let it protect results rather than "truth".

Yuck. Furthermore, yuck.

Don't get me wrong -- results are very important. But getting the model right is the only way to guarantee results. Get the model wrong, and one day you might to do the equivalent of filling your car's gas tank with acetone.