shokwave comments on Only say 'rational' when you can't eliminate the word - Less Wrong

55 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 May 2012 06:56AM

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Comment author: shokwave 31 May 2012 03:09:09PM 2 points [-]

But then what about "optimal car-buying"

More precisely indicates we want to optimise a decision over a particular utility function, or at least set of desires.