Just wrote my first reply to @JakeOrthwein in our conversation about metarationality and rationality. Stoked to keep going!
https://letter.wiki/conversation/399#letter_1515 …
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Another distinction you make in the book, relevant to our epistemic/instrumental discussion: reasonableness is purpose-laden, rationality is purpose-independent, and meta-rationality evaluates and coordinates purposes. But rationality depends upon reasonableness to function.
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Yes, that's right, although a rationalist would probably reply that of course rationality is always applied toward some purpose, which is correct. The distinction is that the formalism per se has no specific purpose, only its use does.
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The process leading to an action is meta-rational if it involves explicitly considering what sort of rational system to apply and how and why.
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The “meta-rational path” (I’m not sure I’d use that phrase) would be learning to do meta-rationality well. That is, skill in considering alternative formal systems that could be brought to bear in a situation, their pluses and minuses, how they might be combined or modified, etc.
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