Not necessarily. It’s just that we are very far from being perfectly rational.
You’re right. I wrote “rational minds” in general when I was thinking about the most rational few of people today. I did not mean any perfectly rational mind exists.
Most or all Human brains tend to work better if they experience certain kinds of things that may include wasteful parts, like comedy, socializing, and dreaming. Its not rational to waste more than you have to. Today we do not have enough knowledge and control over our minds to optimize away all our wasteful/suboptimal thoughts.
I have no reason to think, in the “design space” of all possible minds, there exists 0, or there exists more than 0, perfectly rational minds that tend to think more efficiently after experiencing comedy.
I do have a reason to slightly bias it toward “there exists more than 0” because Humans and monkeys have a sense of humor that helps them think better if used at least once per day, but when thinking about exponential size intelligence, that slight bias becomes an epsilon. Epsilon can be important if you’re completely undecided, but usually its best to look for ideas somewhere else before considering an epsilon size chance. What people normally call “smarter than Human intelligence” is also an epsilon size intelligence in this context, so the 2 things are not epsilon when compared to eachother.
The main thing I’ve figured out here is to be more open-minded about if comedy (and similar things) can increase the efficiency of a rational mind or not. I let an assumption get into my writing.
You’re right. I wrote “rational minds” in general when I was thinking about the most rational few of people today. I did not mean any perfectly rational mind exists.
Most or all Human brains tend to work better if they experience certain kinds of things that may include wasteful parts, like comedy, socializing, and dreaming. Its not rational to waste more than you have to. Today we do not have enough knowledge and control over our minds to optimize away all our wasteful/suboptimal thoughts.
I have no reason to think, in the “design space” of all possible minds, there exists 0, or there exists more than 0, perfectly rational minds that tend to think more efficiently after experiencing comedy.
I do have a reason to slightly bias it toward “there exists more than 0” because Humans and monkeys have a sense of humor that helps them think better if used at least once per day, but when thinking about exponential size intelligence, that slight bias becomes an epsilon. Epsilon can be important if you’re completely undecided, but usually its best to look for ideas somewhere else before considering an epsilon size chance. What people normally call “smarter than Human intelligence” is also an epsilon size intelligence in this context, so the 2 things are not epsilon when compared to eachother.
The main thing I’ve figured out here is to be more open-minded about if comedy (and similar things) can increase the efficiency of a rational mind or not. I let an assumption get into my writing.