I understand that there are situations in which you definitely do not want to show how relatively rational you are.
But there are also situations where bad outcomes are unlikely. At some point you’ve gotta say “the risk is low enough and the potential gain is great enough that I’ll do this thing.”, because it’s hard to get more rational on your own.
Have you interpreted my comment as a comment on the article rather than passive_fist’s comment? Personally I think the OP is competently written and reasonably accurate.
The problem was with passive_fist’s excessively simplified representation of what it means to be instrumentally rational (as a human being with complex values, rather than a paperclip optimizer with simple values).
Have you interpreted my comment as a comment on the article rather than passive_fist’s comment?
Yes. And I embarrass myself again. At least this time I can blame it on not being able to see the formatting? On rereading, your comment makes sense as a reply to Passive_fist’s, and I don’t know how I managed to miss that the first time through.
I understand that there are situations in which you definitely do not want to show how relatively rational you are.
But there are also situations where bad outcomes are unlikely. At some point you’ve gotta say “the risk is low enough and the potential gain is great enough that I’ll do this thing.”, because it’s hard to get more rational on your own.
Have you interpreted my comment as a comment on the article rather than passive_fist’s comment? Personally I think the OP is competently written and reasonably accurate.
The problem was with passive_fist’s excessively simplified representation of what it means to be instrumentally rational (as a human being with complex values, rather than a paperclip optimizer with simple values).
Yes. And I embarrass myself again. At least this time I can blame it on not being able to see the formatting? On rereading, your comment makes sense as a reply to Passive_fist’s, and I don’t know how I managed to miss that the first time through.