Sublime

Epistemic rationality: systematically improving the accuracy of your beliefs.

Epistemic rationality: systematically improving the accuracy of your beliefs.

So rationality is about forming true beliefs and making winning decisions.

But a human brain is a flawed lens that can understand its own flaws—its systematic errors, its biases—and apply second-order corrections to them.

To solve problems, our brains have evolved to employ cognitive heuristics—rough shortcuts that get the right answer often, but not all the time.