Eyes front! It’s a better thought as rationality, which I would never have found, if I’d been so impressed with daring to write about rationality, that I had forgiven myself the prosodic transgression of an extra syllable.
You seem to be saying that forcing yourself to make better art made the rationality better. That’s confusing, what would be the mechanism for it?
Needing an answer that had an irrelevant property (number of syllables) forced him to consider more of the answer space than he otherwise would have. I don’t believe that looking for artistically pleasing things would produce more rational answers per unit time, but it does at least enforce a lower bound on time spent.
You seem to be saying that forcing yourself to make better art made the rationality better. That’s confusing, what would be the mechanism for it?
Needing an answer that had an irrelevant property (number of syllables) forced him to consider more of the answer space than he otherwise would have. I don’t believe that looking for artistically pleasing things would produce more rational answers per unit time, but it does at least enforce a lower bound on time spent.