Rationality as wisdom could be a highly useful frame, one that I’ve been considering myself. If I could describe in layman’s terms what it means to be wise, I’d define it as unbiased judgment, appropriately high levels of knowledge, an accurate model of the world, moral behaviour, and the ability to employ your cognitive skills to make decisions which do not result in avoidable mistakes. In fact, just not making mistakes, be they cognitive, philosophical / intellectual, behavioral, moral, affective, economic or whatever, seems to be a good approximation of the definition of wisdom, which of course comes back to our title mission of becoming Less Wrong.
The best part of this frame is that you could draw upon ideas about rationality of people from other times and cultures, since wisdom is a pretty universal concept, more so than LW-style rationality. Perhaps browse the Rationality Quotes thread and exemplify your points using the most-upvoted quotes from there.
Rationality as wisdom could be a highly useful frame, one that I’ve been considering myself. If I could describe in layman’s terms what it means to be wise, I’d define it as unbiased judgment, appropriately high levels of knowledge, an accurate model of the world, moral behaviour, and the ability to employ your cognitive skills to make decisions which do not result in avoidable mistakes. In fact, just not making mistakes, be they cognitive, philosophical / intellectual, behavioral, moral, affective, economic or whatever, seems to be a good approximation of the definition of wisdom, which of course comes back to our title mission of becoming Less Wrong.
The best part of this frame is that you could draw upon ideas about rationality of people from other times and cultures, since wisdom is a pretty universal concept, more so than LW-style rationality. Perhaps browse the Rationality Quotes thread and exemplify your points using the most-upvoted quotes from there.