gjm comments on Epistemic vs. Instrumental Rationality: Approximations - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Peter_de_Blanc 28 April 2009 03:12AM

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Comment author: gjm 28 April 2009 02:58:13PM 2 points [-]

All those events with probabilities so small they aren't worth the resources are the ones you never even think about

... Ah, if only that were so.

(But I take it you mean "the ones you never even think about if you are an optimized bounded rationalist", in which case I think you're right.)