Seriously, doing this in non-silly manner is highly nontrivial.
Oh, no joke. But we have to start somewhere. :)
Honestly, until we have a better word/definition than “rationality,” we get to play with fuzzy words. I am happy with that for now but it is a dull future.
I made more causal comments on this subject in a different comment and would appreciate your thoughts. It is kind of long, however, so no worries if you would rather not. :)
Yeah. If I were to do it I would probably start from the question of defining someone’s level of rationality. The topic itself assumes:
“Rationality” is not boolean. People can be more or less rational on a scale.
People can be completely irrational in the sense that they score a 0 on the scale.
The question becomes: Can such a person increase their level on the scale?
Further thoughts:
How does one increase their level on the scale?
Does it require rationality to get more rationality?
Is there an upper bound? If the lower bound is 0...
If there is an upper bound, can this upper bound be achieved?
...and then you prove that the level of rationality and operations on it correspond to Bayesian probability up to isomorphism. ;-)
Seriously, doing this in non-silly manner is highly nontrivial.
Oh, no joke. But we have to start somewhere. :)
Honestly, until we have a better word/definition than “rationality,” we get to play with fuzzy words. I am happy with that for now but it is a dull future.
I made more causal comments on this subject in a different comment and would appreciate your thoughts. It is kind of long, however, so no worries if you would rather not. :)