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ScottL comments on Rationality Compendium: Principle 1 - A rational agent, given its capabilities and the situation it is in, is one that thinks and acts optimally - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ScottL 01 September 2015 01:56:06PM 0 points [-]

Sorry, if I was meandering and repeating my points. I wasn't viewing this as an argument, so I don't view it as going in circles, but as going through a series of drafts. Maybe, I will need to be more careful in the future. I appreciate your feedback.

In regards to what we talked about, I am not really that happy with how rationality is defined in the literature, but I am also not sure of what a better way to define it would be. I guess I will have to look into the bounded types of rationality.

Comment author: Lumifer 01 September 2015 03:01:40PM 0 points [-]

No, that's perfectly fine, I wasn't treating it as an argument, either. It's just that you are spending a lot of time thinking about it, and I'm spending less time, so, having made some points, I really don't have much more to contribute and I don't want to fisk your thinking notes. No need to be careful in drafts, that's not what they are for :-)