the Nazis believed many things considered insane even by the average Joe’s lowly standards, like “mass-murder is a good thing”.
This doesn’t necessarily mean they weren’t rational, only that if they were their utility function was very different from yours. (Though Hanlon’s razor—and this which is a pretty good argument for it—makes me assign a higher prior probability for the former than for the latter. I haven’t looked for evidence which would raise or lower that prior, though.)
This doesn’t necessarily mean they weren’t rational, only that if they were their utility function was very different from yours. (Though Hanlon’s razor—and this which is a pretty good argument for it—makes me assign a higher prior probability for the former than for the latter. I haven’t looked for evidence which would raise or lower that prior, though.)