On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 01:48:35PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: > On 1/18/2014 9:33 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > >BTW did you mean irrational unpredicatibility? Rational > >unpredictability is an oxymoron. > > "Why did you do that?" > "I wanted to be unpredictable." > "Why did you want to be unpredictable." > "So my opponent cannot possibly anticipate my move." > > Sounds rational to me. > > Brent >
More like meta-rational, if you like. If the action taken was nonoptimal according to your utility - like donating money to a charity when your utility is how much money you own, then it is still irrational by definition. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
