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DanielLC comments on Only say 'rational' when you can't eliminate the word - Less Wrong Discussion

55 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 May 2012 06:56AM

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Comment author: DanielLC 15 September 2014 04:34:00AM 1 point [-]

I'd say you need it not just because it's a default assumption, but because it's also an inaccurate assumption. Sort of like how you specify that an inclined plane is frictionless and in a vacuum, but you don't mention that it's under the force of gravity, or that it will force away any object that would otherwise pass through it.