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Comment author: buybuydandavis 10 October 2013 05:54:16PM 1 point [-]

very high levels of instrumental rationality combined with moderately high levels of instrumental rationality.

" very high levels of instrumental rationality combined with moderately high levels of epistemic rationality"?

And in a world where other agents are the most important powers you deal with, social instrumental rationality is more relevant to evolutionary fitness and personal success than epistemic rationality. I worry that me and my kind are going the way of the dodo.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 10 October 2013 06:11:45PM 1 point [-]

Yeah. Fixed, thanks.