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MakoYass comments on The Number Choosing Game: Against the existence of perfect theoretical rationality - Less Wrong Discussion
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Ok, lets say you are right that there does not exist perfect theoretical rationality in your hypothetical game context with all the assumptions that helps to keep the whole game standing. Nice. So what?
It is useful to be able to dismiss any preconceptions that perfect decisionmakers can exist, or even be reasoned about. I think this is a very elegant way of doing that.
No. It just says that perfect decisionmakers can't exist in a world that violates basic physics by allowing people to state even bigger numbers without spending additional time. It doesn't say that perfect decisionmakers can't exist in a world that operates under the physics under which our world operates.
The fact that you can constructe possible world in which there are no perfect decisionmakers isn't very interesting.
"World that violates basic physics" - well the laws of physics are different in this scenario, but I keep the laws of logic the same, which is something.
"The fact that you can constructe possible world in which there are no perfect decisionmakers isn't very interesting."
Maybe. This is just part 1 =P.