Viliam_Bur comments on Epistemic and Instrumental Tradeoffs - Less Wrong

20 Post author: katydee 19 May 2013 07:49AM

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Comment author: ThrustVectoring 21 May 2013 02:43:07AM -1 points [-]

we might be better served by avoiding the term "rationality" and coming up with something else.

My friends label me as "rational" (or alternatively, "hyper-rational") when talking about my stereotypically Spock-like characteristics. I'm all in favor of splitting up the overload on the word.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 21 May 2013 07:54:09AM *  2 points [-]

If we invent a new word, and the word will become famous enough, sooner or later Hollywood will make a movie using this word to describe a protagonist who does not completely satisfy the definition and also has many unrelated weird traits, and then we are back at the beginning.