ISTM that instrumental rationality overlaps a great deal with self-help/improvement. We could avoid the latter only by restricting ourselves to discussing epistemic rationality.
I don’t want the more practical or self-improvement posts to overwhelm the more academic or posts, but I don’t think the balance is too far off yet.
ISTM that instrumental rationality overlaps a great deal with self-help/improvement.
It’s a subset of it. But there are a lot of other self-help topics that don’t belong here except (as for any topic that isn’t rationality) when there’s a specific rationality angle being discussed: diet, physical fitness, personal organisation (i.e. things like GTD and 43 folders), and so on.
ISTM that instrumental rationality overlaps a great deal with self-help/improvement. We could avoid the latter only by restricting ourselves to discussing epistemic rationality.
I don’t want the more practical or self-improvement posts to overwhelm the more academic or posts, but I don’t think the balance is too far off yet.
It’s a subset of it. But there are a lot of other self-help topics that don’t belong here except (as for any topic that isn’t rationality) when there’s a specific rationality angle being discussed: diet, physical fitness, personal organisation (i.e. things like GTD and 43 folders), and so on.