I wonder how strong the reverse relationship is: “The more rational someone is, the more likely they are to be influential”. The only ways I can think of to supply something valuable enough that you become “influential” without exerting a fair amount of instrumental rationality are in entertainment and some kinds of writing, and even then it still seems like it’d help enough to give you a major advantage over whoever’s competing for influence with you. Epistemic rationality is of course near-worthless to most people, and they’re often right in that assessment.
I wonder how strong the reverse relationship is: “The more rational someone is, the more likely they are to be influential”. The only ways I can think of to supply something valuable enough that you become “influential” without exerting a fair amount of instrumental rationality are in entertainment and some kinds of writing, and even then it still seems like it’d help enough to give you a major advantage over whoever’s competing for influence with you. Epistemic rationality is of course near-worthless to most people, and they’re often right in that assessment.