Poll: What’s the rationally optimal level of rationality?
Assume rest is anarchy of neuroses, psychoses, biases, magical thinking, superstition etc
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i picked 25% but my real answer is orders of magnitude less 🤣
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Hypothesis - anything over 50% would lead to decision fatigue + occasionally suspending rationality may lead to bouts of inspiration that would otherwise be ignored.
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"rest is anarchy of neuroses, psychoses, biases, magical thinking, superstition etc" - do "feelings or intuition" fall into "etc"?
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it's always 100% because you can always suspend some proportion for some amount of time if you decide that's optimal
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Is there a difference between rational and meta-rational, in this question?
Kim Stanley Robinson (or GK Chesterton, or Blaise Pascal): "An excess of reason is itself a form of madness"
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