So, in the future, being rational may make you unemployable and unlovable, because you’ll be unable to hide your rationality.
This seems either irrelevant or contradictory. If we’re incapable of altering our behavior to account for rationality-punishers, then the issue is moot, it’s just plain discrimination against a minority like any other. If we are capable, and we don’t account for them, then we’re not being rational.
I still think what you’re saying is contradictory. We’re using “rationality” to mean “maximizing expected utility”, correct? If we are aware that certain classes of attempts to do so will be punished, then we’re aware that they will not in fact maximize our expected utility, so by definition such attempts aren’t rational.
It seems like you’re picking and choosing which counterfactuals “count” and which ones don’t. How does punishment differ from any other constraint? If I inhabited a universe in which I had an infinite amount of time and space with which to compute my decisions, I’d implement AIXI and call it good. The universe I actually inhabit requires me to sacrifice that particular form of optimality, but that doesn’t mean it’s irrational to make theoretically sub-optimal decisions.
This seems either irrelevant or contradictory. If we’re incapable of altering our behavior to account for rationality-punishers, then the issue is moot, it’s just plain discrimination against a minority like any other. If we are capable, and we don’t account for them, then we’re not being rational.
If altering your behavior to account for rationality-punishers requires training yourself to be irrational, the issue is not moot.
I still think what you’re saying is contradictory. We’re using “rationality” to mean “maximizing expected utility”, correct? If we are aware that certain classes of attempts to do so will be punished, then we’re aware that they will not in fact maximize our expected utility, so by definition such attempts aren’t rational.
It seems like you’re picking and choosing which counterfactuals “count” and which ones don’t. How does punishment differ from any other constraint? If I inhabited a universe in which I had an infinite amount of time and space with which to compute my decisions, I’d implement AIXI and call it good. The universe I actually inhabit requires me to sacrifice that particular form of optimality, but that doesn’t mean it’s irrational to make theoretically sub-optimal decisions.