niplav comments on Closed Limelike Curves’s Shortform

[niplav]

This seems true, thanks for your editing on the related pages.

Trying to collect & link the relevant pages:

• Dutch book theorems

  • Money pump

• Von Neumann-Morgenstern utility theorem

  • Utility

• Rational Choice Cheory

• Decision Theory

  • Causal Decision Theory

  • Evidential Decision Theory

  • Functional Decision Theory

• Cox’s Theorem

• Discounting

  • Hyperbolic discounting

  • Dynamic inconsistency

  • Time preference

[ProgramCrafter]

There is also article Decision-making.

Importance arguments:

1. Five wikiprojects rely on this article, but it is C-class on Wikipedia scale;

2. Topic seems quite important for people. If someone not knowing how to make decisions stumbles upon the article, the first image they see… is a flowchart, which can scare non-programmists away.

[Seth Herd]

This seems like a much better target for spreading rationalism. The other listed articles all seem quite detailed and far from the central rationalist project. Decision-making seems like a more likely on-ramp.

[Closed Limelike Curves]

I’m less interested in spreading rationalism per se and more in teaching people about rationality. The other articles are very strongly+closely related to rationality; I chose them since they’re articles describing key concepts in rational choice.

[Seth Herd]

That’s fine, but it’s a pretty specific preference, so your claims that this shows that rationalists aren’t even trying seem pretty questionable.