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 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
