lavalamp comments on Epistemic vs. Instrumental Rationality: Case of the Leaky Agent - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lavalamp 08 May 2009 04:32:57PM 0 points [-]

So the question here is something like, "Would you try to make yourself believe a lie, in the case that believing the lie would cause you to maximize your utility function in a way that believing the truth would not?"

Is this more or less a correct reading?