wedrifid comments on Instrumental rationality/self help resources - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Metus 18 July 2013 07:00:28AM 2 points [-]

Interestingly, the wiki turns it around and says that epistemic rationality is a special case of instrumental rationality.

Comment author: wedrifid 20 July 2013 05:30:09AM 0 points [-]

Interestingly, the wiki turns it around and says that epistemic rationality is a special case of instrumental rationality.

I wonder who wrote the wiki page. The claim is controversial. I'd say that the article would be better without it.

Comment author: Caspian 20 July 2013 11:07:01PM 0 points [-]

That part of the wiki page was written in this edit

Comment author: wedrifid 21 July 2013 02:57:25AM 0 points [-]

That part of the wiki page was written in this edit

Thanks. Fixed. If someone wants to include discussion about how instrumental and epistemic rationality are related they may consider creating an additional subheading for that purpose. The 'instrumental rationality' section needs to be a simple definition of what the phrase refers to.