Definition of “rationalism” from the Eggplant book draft. If you identify as a rationalist, I’m curious whether you find this accurate, and if not, why not?pic.twitter.com/2cvo7478fj
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Yes… in the presence of conflicting goals, one would need an objective function (or something roughly equivalent) expressing how to trade them off. Otherwise the framework doesn’t apply.
Maybe I get you more with last tweet @Meaningness — you don’t see Actual Person as agent-with-a-goal, but pluralistic with sometimes conflicting goals; DT doesn’t apply holistically b/c Actual Person has no Actual Utility Function; your point more organismic than mathy — close?
Yes. All except the last bit: it’s true and important that people are apes, but that wasn’t the point here. If an “abstract agent” has incommensurable goals, DT doesn’t apply. “Organismic” doesn’t bear on the problem.
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