Assuming infinite cognitive resources or something? What’s your standard?
Does it matter? If the standard chosen is such that humans behave perfectly rationally according to it then they are completely free of bias and ‘rational’ has taken on a bizarre redefinition to equal to whatever humans are already achieving. The time to be particular about whether rational means ‘optimal use of cognitive resources’ or ‘assuming infinite cognitive resources’ is when the behavior in question is anywhere remotely near either.
This idea of rationality is somewhat broken because we lack baselines except those we get from intuitive feelings of indignation or at best expected utility calculations about how manipulable others’ belief states are. We have no idea what ‘optimal use of cognitive resources’ would look like and our intuitions about it are likely to be tinged with insane unreflected-upon moral judgments.
Um I don’t think we significantly disagree about anything truly important and this conversation topic is kinda boring. My fault.
Does it matter? If the standard chosen is such that humans behave perfectly rationally according to it then they are completely free of bias and ‘rational’ has taken on a bizarre redefinition to equal to whatever humans are already achieving. The time to be particular about whether rational means ‘optimal use of cognitive resources’ or ‘assuming infinite cognitive resources’ is when the behavior in question is anywhere remotely near either.
This idea of rationality is somewhat broken because we lack baselines except those we get from intuitive feelings of indignation or at best expected utility calculations about how manipulable others’ belief states are. We have no idea what ‘optimal use of cognitive resources’ would look like and our intuitions about it are likely to be tinged with insane unreflected-upon moral judgments.
Um I don’t think we significantly disagree about anything truly important and this conversation topic is kinda boring. My fault.