I think it would probably be worth going into a bit more about what delineates tacit rationality from tacit knowledge. Rationality seems to me to apply to things that you can reflect about, and so the concept of things that you can reflect about but can’t necessarily articulate seems weird.
For instance, at first it wasn’t clear to me that working at a startup would give you any rationality-related skills except insofar as it gives you instrumental rationality skills, which could possibly just be explained as better tacit knowledge—you know a bajillion more things about the actual details necessary to run a business and make things happening.
There’s actually a ton of non-tacit knowledge potential powerups from running a startup though! That probably even engage reflection!
For instance, a person could learn what it feels like when they’re about to be too tired to work for the rest of the day, and learn to stop before then so that they could avoid burnout. This would be a reflective skill (noticing a particular sensation of tiredness), and yet it would be nigh impossible to articulate (can you describe what it feels like to almost be unable to work well enough that I can detect it in myself?).
I think it would probably be worth going into a bit more about what delineates tacit rationality from tacit knowledge. Rationality seems to me to apply to things that you can reflect about, and so the concept of things that you can reflect about but can’t necessarily articulate seems weird.
For instance, at first it wasn’t clear to me that working at a startup would give you any rationality-related skills except insofar as it gives you instrumental rationality skills, which could possibly just be explained as better tacit knowledge—you know a bajillion more things about the actual details necessary to run a business and make things happening.
There’s actually a ton of non-tacit knowledge potential powerups from running a startup though! That probably even engage reflection!
For instance, a person could learn what it feels like when they’re about to be too tired to work for the rest of the day, and learn to stop before then so that they could avoid burnout. This would be a reflective skill (noticing a particular sensation of tiredness), and yet it would be nigh impossible to articulate (can you describe what it feels like to almost be unable to work well enough that I can detect it in myself?).