katydee comments on Epistemic and Instrumental Tradeoffs - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: katydee 22 May 2013 09:09:38PM *  0 points [-]

I would say that if you have "tacit" skills but the wrong map, you might instrumentally do well within the narrow domain where your misunderstood skills work, but you have a chance for a catastrophic failure once you venture outside of it.

I agree, and think this explains a large amount of human failure. I believe that nearly everyone relies on tacit skills for nearly everything and that whether "general instrumental rationality" even exists is by all means an open question.