To be clear, I wasn’t suggesting that we go around calling ourselves “rationalists” or “optimizers”; I was simply pointing out the near-synonymy of those terms as descriptions of what we aspire to be.
Also, names for processes themselves probably had better make reference to underlying goals. Mentally separating the two is unhealthy: see Lost Purposes.
To be clear, I wasn’t suggesting that we go around calling ourselves “rationalists” or “optimizers”; I was simply pointing out the near-synonymy of those terms as descriptions of what we aspire to be.
Also, names for processes themselves probably had better make reference to underlying goals. Mentally separating the two is unhealthy: see Lost Purposes.