MTGandP 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: MTGandP 01 November 2012 08:57:48PM 1 point [-]

"has the same meaning as"

"most of the time when you want to use the former, you should use the latter instead"

I think, in general, these statements amount to the same thing. "It's rational to __" generally means the same thing as the "deflated" statement; the key difference is its use of the word "rational" or "rationality" that ends up weakening the term.