I agree that “winning” isn’t a good description, but to me it’s more a guiding principle than a diagnostic.
It feels like the kind of advice which is universally applicable but almost entirely useless, like “between consenting adults, there’s no right or wrong way to have sex; do whatever works for you”. (I feel like there must be a word for this kind of thing. It’s maybe not quite a platitude, but I guess it’s a subset of platitudes.)
That is, “rationality is about winning” doesn’t really help to point someone at how to win; but if you ever go “we’re not trying to win here, we’re trying to be rational”, you’ve gotten confused somewhere.
I agree that “winning” isn’t a good description, but to me it’s more a guiding principle than a diagnostic.
It feels like the kind of advice which is universally applicable but almost entirely useless, like “between consenting adults, there’s no right or wrong way to have sex; do whatever works for you”. (I feel like there must be a word for this kind of thing. It’s maybe not quite a platitude, but I guess it’s a subset of platitudes.)
That is, “rationality is about winning” doesn’t really help to point someone at how to win; but if you ever go “we’re not trying to win here, we’re trying to be rational”, you’ve gotten confused somewhere.