Rationality
topic on 1 show · 4 statements across 2 episodes
4 statements about Rationality, every show
Sutherland: Rationality cannot evolve because total predictability is fatal
“It's impossible for anything rational, To successfully evolve, because the byproduct of being rational and efficient, optimally rational and efficient, would be that you'd be predictable. And if you were completely predictable, you'd be dead.”
Galef: Expecting other people to behave rationally is itself fundamentally irrational
“He is supposed to be the logical, rational one, but he keeps making miscalculations because he expects other people to behave rationally, and they don't. And he should know this, because he's lived among humans for ages, and the fact that he still expects peop…”
Galef: Appreciating art satisfies human goals often overlooked in rationality
“But in terms of appreciating art I'd say for many people, maybe for most people, for some form of art, that's very important for their goals. And the kinds of goals I'm thinking of Are indeed the kinds of goals that people usually don't think of when I say the…”
Galef: Art creation is orthogonal to rationality because it is expressive
“I kind of think of art as being orthogonal independent of rationality. The kinds of things that the artist is trying to do are mostly not trying to get the right answer to a question or achieve a goal. It's more of an expressive process.”