Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

Ep. 41 - What is Rationality?

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Nov 27, 2019
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INSIGHT

Rationality and Goals

  • Rationality involves overcoming self-deception and achieving goals.
  • Optimizing goal achievement often leads to changing goals, valuing process over results.
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Source of Rationality

  • Humans are the source of rationality standards, derived from our competence.
  • Normative theories arise from idealizing competence and minimizing performance errors.
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Competence vs. Performance

  • Competence errors are systematic, unlike performance errors which are circumstantial.
  • Systematic errors in reasoning experiments suggest flaws in competence, not just performance.
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