From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 03:16:13 MDT
Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
>>Well, yeah, but unfortunately those thirty or forty people are not a
>>significant force in world affairs.
>
> It is irrational to behave rationally in an irrational world.
What a sheerly silly statement. Rational behavior changes depending on
whether you're living in a world where other agents are mostly rational or
mostly irrational. If it were irrational to behave rationally in an
irrational world, then it would be irrational to behave rationally by
behaving irrationally.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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