I see it as exactly the other way around: the only good reason to care about epistemic rationality is because it helps you be instrumentally rational. Obtaining accurate beliefs and then doing nothing with them is intellectual masturbation.
Obtaining accurate beliefs and then doing nothing with them is intellectual masturbation.
This could be a goal in itself.
This too, is entirely compatible with my point. What rationality is, and why we care about it, are distinct questions.
I see it as exactly the other way around: the only good reason to care about epistemic rationality is because it helps you be instrumentally rational. Obtaining accurate beliefs and then doing nothing with them is intellectual masturbation.
This could be a goal in itself.
This too, is entirely compatible with my point. What rationality is, and why we care about it, are distinct questions.