Now that I come to think of it, I’ve never seen the LW definition of “rationality” used anywhere outside LW and OB, and I’ve never even seen it explicitly defined. EDIT: http://lesswrong.com/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/
But if you asked me, I would say it means taking your selfish and unemotional economic agent to his logical extreme: rationally examining one’s own thought processes in order to optimise them, rationally examining scientific evidence without interference from one’s biases, and rationally accepting the possibility that one has made a mistake.
Now that I come to think of it, I’ve never seen the LW definition of “rationality” used anywhere outside LW and OB, and I’ve never even seen it explicitly defined. EDIT: http://lesswrong.com/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/ But if you asked me, I would say it means taking your selfish and unemotional economic agent to his logical extreme: rationally examining one’s own thought processes in order to optimise them, rationally examining scientific evidence without interference from one’s biases, and rationally accepting the possibility that one has made a mistake.