Enlightening, thank you. Do you think that inability to obviously and intuitively make such economic distinctions is likely to hurt my rationality? (That is, would it be better to read a computer programming textbook or a microeconomics textbook if I wanted to be a master rationalist?)
It’s a little difficult for me to give a good answer to this. I feel I reached the point of diminishing returns some time ago with computer programming textbooks (I’m a professional programmer) and have only relatively recently taught myself some economics. Both are valuable to a rationalist but I’m not sure which has higher value. I think learning some basic economics may have more instrumental value than learning programming if you’re not going to make a living as a programmer however.
Enlightening, thank you. Do you think that inability to obviously and intuitively make such economic distinctions is likely to hurt my rationality? (That is, would it be better to read a computer programming textbook or a microeconomics textbook if I wanted to be a master rationalist?)
It’s a little difficult for me to give a good answer to this. I feel I reached the point of diminishing returns some time ago with computer programming textbooks (I’m a professional programmer) and have only relatively recently taught myself some economics. Both are valuable to a rationalist but I’m not sure which has higher value. I think learning some basic economics may have more instrumental value than learning programming if you’re not going to make a living as a programmer however.