Qiaochu_Yuan comments on "Stupid" questions thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 13 July 2013 04:54:43AM *  16 points [-]

LW's foundational posts are all very strongly biased towards epistemic rationality, and I think that strong bias still affects our attempts to talk about instrumental rationality. There are probably all sorts of instrumentally rational things we could be doing that we don't talk about enough.

Comment author: ikrase 13 July 2013 08:05:34AM 1 point [-]

Would also be useful to know how to get other people around you to up meta-ness or machiavellianism.