rationality is a method of dealing with uncertainty by devouring information and making simplifying assumptions about the outside world until you can convince yourself that you understand it
rationality is a method of dealing with uncertainty by devouring information and making simplifying assumptions about the outside world until you can convince yourself that you understand it
Epistemic rationality: systematically improving the accuracy of your beliefs.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
Epistemic rationality: systematically improving the accuracy of your beliefs.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
So rationality is about forming true beliefs and making winning decisions.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
Taleb’s notion of rationality-as-risk-management liberates “rationality” from conflicting sets of rhetorical expectations, and replaces them with a common set of market incentives .
Market incentives create the kind of consensus the information age demands, and also the kind of people who can tolerate it .
Mike Elias • Pascal’s Market
The only definition of rationality that I’ve found that is practically, empirically, and mathematically rigorous is the following: what is rational is that which allows for survival. Unlike modern theories by psychosophasters, it maps to the classical way of thinking. Anything that hinders one’s survival at an individual, collective, tribal, or gen
... See moreNassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Falk Lieder, Ming Hsu, and Tom Griffiths showed that the ‘rational’ solution to this computational constraint is to over-sample extreme outcomes. That is, you should apply something like the availability heuristic by calling those more extreme (easily accessible) outcomes to mind. The result is a biased estimate, but one that is optimal given the f... See more
Jason Collins • We don’t have a hundred biases, we have the wrong model - Works in Progress
For a human, rationality often means becoming more self-aware about your feelings, so you can factor them into your decisions.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
Instrumental rationality: systematically achieving your values.