Cyan comments on Without models - Less Wrong

14 Post author: RichardKennaway 04 May 2009 11:31AM

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Comment author: Cyan 06 May 2009 09:21:40PM *  0 points [-]

...so that's a "no," then? (I don't think we disagree about what is actually (thought to be) happening, only on the words we'd use to describe it.)

Comment author: JGWeissman 06 May 2009 09:40:47PM 0 points [-]

That is correct. We are using the word differently. What do you mean by "rationality"?

Comment author: Cyan 06 May 2009 11:14:21PM *  0 points [-]

That's a question with a complicated answer, but for the purposes of distinguishing what natural selection does from Cyan::rationality, it involves actions that are planned with an eye to constraining the future.