MattG comments on Why Don't Rationalists Win? - Less Wrong

6 Post author: adamzerner 05 September 2015 12:57AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 21 September 2015 12:06:01AM 0 points [-]

It's definitely relevant to this reasoning:

"Since (instrumental) rationality is winning, and these people are winning within their own domains, they are being instrumental rationalists within them."

Just assume Adam Zerner wasn't talking about instrumental rationality in this case.