astray comments on The Craft and the Community - Less Wrong

27 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 April 2009 05:52PM

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Comment author: astray 28 April 2009 09:49:05PM *  1 point [-]

I don't think that b is necessarily an immediate entailment of rationality, but a condition that can be met simultaneously with a and c. The post presents a situation where c is satisficed only through a and b. (It does not take much finagling to suppose that a lonesome mountain man existence in a world ruled by barbarians is inferior in fuzziness and utilons relative to the expectation of the world where a b and c are held to be true.)