At the risk of this turning into unsolicited advice, I didn’t read this because it’s too long without giving me enough reason to think there’s valuable insights buried in there. I think this is a somewhat interesting topic, as how to end conversations, say at a party, is a useful skill to have to avoid getting stuck spending a long time talking to someone you don’t want to talk to and also gives you the confidence to stay in a conservation because you know you can also get out of it, but I bounced off this because it had high word count, minimal internal structure to help me skim it, and a title that makes a bit of a LW faux pas (the idea of doing something like discussion ending “rationally” gives me a type error for what we normally mean by “rationality” on LW).
Rationality is the art of thinking in ways that result in accurate beliefs and good decisions.
There are discussion ending methods which are compatible with this and others which aren’t. The same goes for other rationality issues like finding out if you’re mistaken, biases being found instead of hidden, etc. What is the type error?
Also I hereby grant you and everyone else unlimited license to give me advice.
Mmm, something like using “rational” to really mean “best” or “optimal”. Rationality is about a process, not an outcome, even if it claims to make particular promises on the quality of the outcome.
At the risk of this turning into unsolicited advice, I didn’t read this because it’s too long without giving me enough reason to think there’s valuable insights buried in there. I think this is a somewhat interesting topic, as how to end conversations, say at a party, is a useful skill to have to avoid getting stuck spending a long time talking to someone you don’t want to talk to and also gives you the confidence to stay in a conservation because you know you can also get out of it, but I bounced off this because it had high word count, minimal internal structure to help me skim it, and a title that makes a bit of a LW faux pas (the idea of doing something like discussion ending “rationally” gives me a type error for what we normally mean by “rationality” on LW).
https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/rationality
There are discussion ending methods which are compatible with this and others which aren’t. The same goes for other rationality issues like finding out if you’re mistaken, biases being found instead of hidden, etc. What is the type error?
Also I hereby grant you and everyone else unlimited license to give me advice.
Mmm, something like using “rational” to really mean “best” or “optimal”. Rationality is about a process, not an outcome, even if it claims to make particular promises on the quality of the outcome.
I was using rationality in the same way you normally do – about a process, not about best or optimal. I don’t know why you read it otherwise.