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1 – What Use is Rationality?

The Bayesian Conspiracy

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The Perfect Rationalist

The perfect rationalist will have a better toolkit to understand what went wrong and hopefully be less likely to make those mistakes in the future. This podcast is more for people who are not perfect rationalists, aspiring rationalists at best. I think we could say the perfect rationalist discussion for our episode on Miri, the machine intelligence research institute. The perfect rationalist would have a lot more prior knowledge than we have. And processing power,. But I think having a ton of foreknowledge is part of what helps make you rational.

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