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V_V comments on Cynical explanations of FAI critics (including myself) - Less Wrong Discussion

21 Post author: Wei_Dai 13 August 2012 09:19PM

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Comment author: V_V 05 September 2012 12:50:40AM *  0 points [-]

Given that ideal reasoners are not supposed to disagree,

Under some non-trivial assumptions.

it seems likely that most if not all of these alternative suggestions can also be explained by their proponents being less than rational.

That sounds pretty much condescending. These suggestions are not all mutually exclusive, and proponents with different values might have different preferences without being "less than rational".