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army1987 comments on Is a Purely Rational World a Technologically Advanced World? - Less Wrong Discussion

-3 Post author: tygorton 20 May 2012 04:40AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 20 May 2012 02:56:03PM 2 points [-]

Would pure rationality have severely limited the advancement of technology?

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.)