I think it depends a bit on what we mean by “rational”. But it’s standard to define as “doing the best you CAN, to get to the truth (or, in the case of practical rationality, to get what you want)”. We want to put the “can” proviso in there so that we don’t say people are irrational for failing to be omniscient. But once we put it in there, things like resource-constraints look a lot like constraints on what you CAN do, and therefore make less-ideal performance rational.
That’s controversial, of course, but I do think there’s a case to be made that (at least some) “resource-rational” theories ARE ones on which people are being rational.
I think it depends a bit on what we mean by “rational”. But it’s standard to define as “doing the best you CAN, to get to the truth (or, in the case of practical rationality, to get what you want)”. We want to put the “can” proviso in there so that we don’t say people are irrational for failing to be omniscient. But once we put it in there, things like resource-constraints look a lot like constraints on what you CAN do, and therefore make less-ideal performance rational.
That’s controversial, of course, but I do think there’s a case to be made that (at least some) “resource-rational” theories ARE ones on which people are being rational.