On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 04:37:55PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: > On 11/10/2012 3:56 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > >But if it is rational to be irrational, is it possible to be rational any > >more? > > > > No, but you're making a conundrum out of it. The point is that it's > rational to be non-deterministic. >
Only for some extended, loose definition of "rational". The non-deterministic choices themselves are not rationally determined. I have never come across the term rational agent applying to a stochastic one in the literature. By contrast, I see definitions such as the one I quoted from Wikipedia's article indicating that rational agents are strictly deterministic. Do you have any contrasting references? BTW - thank you for your response to Albert. Very aptly put! Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
