While rational individuals are more successful, most people seem to be irrational. This seems to indicate that either rationality is hard to implement on our intricate and highly evolved human brain (unlikely) or that being irrational had adaptive value for multi level selection.
Rational people have more agency, because they optimize their models for truthfulness and expected reward. They have all options open to irrational people but are free not to choose them.
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Rationality is usually understood as the capacity to recognize whether you have reason to believe that your actions serve your goals.
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So the definition ( metric) of success is more agency? Why not happiness, contentment, reproduction, or luck in romantic love?
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Is it possible that rationality is cognitively expensive? And therefore rational actors are better able to optimize (producing good options), but pay more attention per option (so less options).
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