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shminux comments on How does real world expected utility maximization work? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: shminux 09 March 2012 04:00:55PM 1 point [-]

As Kaj_Sotala pointed out, your mind makes decisions all the time, and so is an excellent optimizer already, albeit a subconscious one. Your job as an aspired rationalist is to feed it quality inputs and navigate through cognitive biases, then trust it to do its closed-source magic to come up with one or more alternatives.