army1987 comments on Is a Purely Rational World a Technologically Advanced World? - Less Wrong Discussion
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It depends on what the utility function of said pure rationality was.
(I've seen the argument that average utilitarians would have never invented agriculture, as the average human in 19th century was worse off than the average human in palaeolithic times.)