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Comment author: RichardKennaway 18 July 2013 10:19:15PM 0 points [-]

Epistemic rationality is just one of many means available for winning. There will be trade offs between these means

I am not interested in these tradeoffs, or in whatever imagined situations where it would hypothetically be better to be dull and ignorant. If LessWrong is about anything, it is about epistemic rationality and its employment for instrumental rationality.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 18 July 2013 10:54:04PM *  0 points [-]

I am not interested in these tradeoffs, or in whatever imagined situations where it would hypothetically be better to be dull and ignorant.

I'm interested. I'm even interested in what aspect of instrumental rationality is served by renouncing epistemic rationality on the question of the limits of epistemic rationality to serve instrumental ends.

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