Do you think this was caused by their rationality? It seems more likely to me that these people are drawn to rationality because it validates how they already think.
What you just said doesn’t make sense. “Rationality”, as formally defined by this community, refers to “doing well” (which I contest, but whatever); Therefore, the question is not “was it caused by their rationality”, but “was it caused by a lack of rationality”, or perhaps “Was their lack of rationality caused by using LW techniques?”.
Defining rationality as winning is useless in most discussions. Obviously what I was referring to is rationality as defined by the community, EG “extreme epistemic rationality”.
The community defines rationality as epistemic rationality AND as winning, and not noticing the difference between the two leeds to the idea that rationalists ought to win at everything...that the winningness of instrumental rationality. and the universality of ER can be combined.
Do you think this was caused by their rationality? It seems more likely to me that these people are drawn to rationality because it validates how they already think.
What you just said doesn’t make sense. “Rationality”, as formally defined by this community, refers to “doing well” (which I contest, but whatever); Therefore, the question is not “was it caused by their rationality”, but “was it caused by a lack of rationality”, or perhaps “Was their lack of rationality caused by using LW techniques?”.
Defining rationality as winning is useless in most discussions. Obviously what I was referring to is rationality as defined by the community, EG “extreme epistemic rationality”.
The community defines rationality as epistemic rationality AND as winning, and not noticing the difference between the two leeds to the idea that rationalists ought to win at everything...that the winningness of instrumental rationality. and the universality of ER can be combined.