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 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.