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casebash comments on The Number Choosing Game: Against the existence of perfect theoretical rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: casebash 05 January 2016 11:36:12PM 0 points [-]

"We can still say, e.g., that one course of action is more rational than another, even in situations where no course of action is most rational." - True.

"But I don't know of any reason to adopt that definition" - perfect rationality means to me more rational than any other agent. I think that is a reasonable definition.

Comment author: evand 29 January 2016 04:23:58AM 0 points [-]

Seeing as this is an entire article about nitpicking and mathematical constructs...

perfect rationality means to me more rational than any other agent. I think that is a reasonable definition.

Surely that should be "at least as rational as any other agent"?

Comment author: casebash 29 January 2016 10:24:52PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for this comment. I agree, but can't be bothered editing.

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