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[SEQ RERUN] Lawful Uncertainty

19th Oct 2012

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[SEQ RERUN] Lawful Uncertainty

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[-]fortyeridania13y40

I believe the summary should read:

throwing away your rationality won't help.

(And I have just edited the Wiki to reflect this.)

[-]MinibearRex13y00

Fixed. Good catch.

[-]Luke_A_Somers13y00

This would have been much clearer with dice. I wonder if that would change the experiment.

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Today's post, Lawful Uncertainty was originally published on 10 November 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

Facing a random scenario, the correct solution is really not to behave randomly. Faced with an irrational universe, throwing away your rationality won't help.

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This post is part of the Rerunning the Sequences series, where we'll be going through Eliezer Yudkowsky's old posts in order so that people who are interested can (re-)read and discuss them. The previous post was Lawful Creativity, and you can use the sequence_reruns tag or rss feed to follow the rest of the series.

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