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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 December 2006 12:38:22AM 0 points [-]

pdf23ds, the prbolem is how to decide when the person you are conversing with is more or equally rational as yourself. What if you disagree about that? Then you have a disagreement about a new variable, your respective degrees of rationality. Do you both believe yourself to be more meta-rational than the other? And so on. See Hanson and Cowen's "Are Disagreements Honest?", http://hanson.gmu.edu/deceive.pdf.