Viliam_Bur comments on Firewalling the Optimal from the Rational - Less Wrong

86 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 October 2012 08:01AM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 09 October 2012 03:20:00PM 1 point [-]

Even if for the sake of discussion we assume that Ayn Rand (or anyone trying to model her) had perfect reasoning, she still could not have perfect information, which is why all her conclusions were necessarily probabilistic. So unless the probability is like over 99%, it is pretty legitimate to disagree rationally.

Hm. There's an implicit "...iff the disagreeer has access to better information than she had" here, right?

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 10 October 2012 07:10:03AM *  1 point [-]

There's an implicit "...iff the disagreeer has access to better information than she had" here, right?

If the disagreer has access to different information. Or just has different priors.

(I want to avoid the connotation "better information" = "strict superset of information".)

Comment author: TheOtherDave 10 October 2012 01:59:46PM 1 point [-]

Point.