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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Thanks, that makes sense! Do you think my definition(s) of “rationalism” would cover the CFAR version? (As a couple of people have helpfully pointed out, I accidentally gave two, which might not coincide, in terms of criteria and method.)
Roughly, yes - as long as it allows that different actions will be optimal for different people because they have different models of the world and utility functions.
Also, I've been discussing optimal decision-making abstractly... and in the real world, ofc, we face a bunch of constraints & uncertainty, & it's not straightforward how to apply the "maximize EV" rule in practice. But I think rationalists ~agree it's the optimal rule in theory.
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