pnrjulius comments on Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pnrjulius 07 April 2012 01:32:23AM 2 points [-]

Indeed, on a list of things we can expect evolved brains to be, ROBUST is very high on the list. ("rational" is actually rather hard to come by. To some degree, rationality improves fitness. But often its cost outweighs its benefit, hence the sea slug.)