Viliam comments on Rationality Quotes Thread January 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: The_Lion 03 January 2016 05:29:29AM 4 points [-]

Not all changes are good. In fact, most potential changes would be absolutely awful.

Comment author: Clarity 13 January 2016 04:38:30AM 0 points [-]

That's a ridiculously pessimistic thing to say

Comment author: Viliam 25 January 2016 09:03:11AM 0 points [-]

How would you feel about this?

Pareto efficiency, or Pareto optimality, is a state of allocation of resources in which it is impossible to make any one individual better off without making at least one individual worse off.

Or about a definition of a (local) maximum that says that all other (adjacent) options are worse?

Comment author: Clarity 26 January 2016 04:01:21AM -1 points [-]

I don't have any particular feelings about since I don't see how you are relating it to the quotes. Could you please clarify?

I believe it's a concept and reckon it's a pretty good Wikipedia article...

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