You seem to be indicating that rationality may not be the best way for an individual to achieve her goals. From the wiki:
The rational algorithm is to do what works, to get the actual answer—in short, to > win, whatever the method, whatever the means.
If you aren’t achieving your goals in the best possible way you aren’t practicing the rational way. If you are losing it should not be for your using rationality, but due to you poorly approximating an ideal rational agent.
Luke, I think (and this is just me) that rationality may not be the best way to achieve all goals… Or, rather, it is not sufficient for all goals would be a better way to say that.
I know that when I was younger, I had a tremendous advantage over others in my field due to my desire to try to formulate rational strategies in a workplace that was overrun by irrationality and playing to the basest desires. Yet, it required a lot of charisma and a modicum of talent in order to get a foot in the door (It was in the entertainment industry).
And, no matter how rational one was, it was difficult to work in an environment where one could be blindsided by a paranoid or irrational co-worker who thought that they were being too marginalized by any attempt their co-workers might have made to better themselves.
But, ultimately, I agree with your last comment:
If you aren’t achieving your goals in the best possible way you aren’t practicing the rational way.
As, given that one knows one is working in an irrational workplace, one should be able to find a way to make that a part of one’s strategy in that workplace.
Nick Tarleton seems to have hit the nail on the head in that sense(see his comment below).
You seem to be indicating that rationality may not be the best way for an individual to achieve her goals. From the wiki:
If you aren’t achieving your goals in the best possible way you aren’t practicing the rational way. If you are losing it should not be for your using rationality, but due to you poorly approximating an ideal rational agent.
Humans inevitably poorly approximate ideal rational agents.
Luke, I think (and this is just me) that rationality may not be the best way to achieve all goals… Or, rather, it is not sufficient for all goals would be a better way to say that.
I know that when I was younger, I had a tremendous advantage over others in my field due to my desire to try to formulate rational strategies in a workplace that was overrun by irrationality and playing to the basest desires. Yet, it required a lot of charisma and a modicum of talent in order to get a foot in the door (It was in the entertainment industry).
And, no matter how rational one was, it was difficult to work in an environment where one could be blindsided by a paranoid or irrational co-worker who thought that they were being too marginalized by any attempt their co-workers might have made to better themselves.
But, ultimately, I agree with your last comment:
As, given that one knows one is working in an irrational workplace, one should be able to find a way to make that a part of one’s strategy in that workplace.
Nick Tarleton seems to have hit the nail on the head in that sense(see his comment below).