On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:13:22PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: > On 1/19/2014 7:09 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > >That's not the definition. A rational agent is someone who always > >chooses the optimal course of action, not that there might be a reason > >for it. > > Isn't "being optimal" a reason? >
Yes - a specific reason, not any old reason. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
