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TheAncientGeek comments on Why I Am Not a Rationalist, or, why several of my friends warned me that this is a cult - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 17 July 2014 06:00:02PM 1 point [-]

deciding what to do in the real world requires non-rational value judgmentsIn

deed, this is why a rational paperclip maximizer would create as many paperclips as possible. (The difference between irrational and rational paperclip maximizers is that the latter has a better model of the world, and thus probably succeeds to create more paperclips on average.)

But here's the training in refining your values?