TobyBartels comments on The Costs of Rationality - Less Wrong

32 Post author: RobinHanson 03 March 2009 06:13PM

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Comment author: TobyBartels 27 August 2010 07:20:47PM 2 points [-]

I like to distinguish information-theoretic rationality from decision-theoretic rationality. (But these are rather long terms.) Often on this blog it's unclear which is meant (although you and Robin did make it clear.)

Comment author: thomblake 27 August 2010 07:36:33PM 1 point [-]

The relevant articles: What do we mean by rationality wiki

Comment author: TobyBartels 27 August 2010 09:54:03PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I'd just been reading those, but they don't fix the terminology either.

Comment author: Pavitra 27 August 2010 07:29:38PM 0 points [-]

Perhaps you could call them "truth" and "winning" respectively.