You seem to still want feedback on this, so I want to expand on why it’s incoherent.
You seem to be making several arguments and then keep jumping to the next one with no obvious link between them:
A thought experiment about people being perfectly rational (I think? you might be suggesting the opposite and I can’t tell) that doesn’t go anywhere
An aside about not liking certain types of praise/criticism that doesn’t go anywhere
An argument that our brains mostly work with heuristics which I think most people here would agree with
A new definition of rationality that inserts experience out of nowhere
Note: Your introduction also kind-of implies that the Rationalist community is stupid, which probably didn’t win you a lot of points (especially since you don’t justify why our canonical texts should say that everyone is perfectly rational and/or use your definition of rationality).
Overall, the problems are (1) there’s a lot of text that doesn’t anywhere and (2) it’s not clear to me what I’m supposed to get out of this. Why should I use your definition of rationality? Is there a reason other people should adopt your opinions about praise/criticism? What does the thought experiment about perfectly rational people have to do with this?
You seem to still want feedback on this, so I want to expand on why it’s incoherent.
You seem to be making several arguments and then keep jumping to the next one with no obvious link between them:
A thought experiment about people being perfectly rational (I think? you might be suggesting the opposite and I can’t tell) that doesn’t go anywhere
An aside about not liking certain types of praise/criticism that doesn’t go anywhere
An argument that our brains mostly work with heuristics which I think most people here would agree with
A new definition of rationality that inserts experience out of nowhere
Note: Your introduction also kind-of implies that the Rationalist community is stupid, which probably didn’t win you a lot of points (especially since you don’t justify why our canonical texts should say that everyone is perfectly rational and/or use your definition of rationality).
Overall, the problems are (1) there’s a lot of text that doesn’t anywhere and (2) it’s not clear to me what I’m supposed to get out of this. Why should I use your definition of rationality? Is there a reason other people should adopt your opinions about praise/criticism? What does the thought experiment about perfectly rational people have to do with this?