“Winning” has technical and everyday senses that often don’t come apart but sometimes do; the simplest justification for the saying that “rationalists win” uses the technical sense
One way I can see to go wrong even with the technical sense of “winning” is if you’re comparing a rational agent to an irrational agent who happens to start out with other, more important advantages. The right comparison is between rational and irrational versions of the same agent.
(And is technically wrong even then.)
How so?
One way I can see to go wrong even with the technical sense of “winning” is if you’re comparing a rational agent to an irrational agent who happens to start out with other, more important advantages. The right comparison is between rational and irrational versions of the same agent.