“It’s not always rational to choose a rational decision-making process for making a decision.”
You are NOT using rational in the same sense in the two places it is used in that sentence.
The first rational means something like “optimal,” or like “winning” when Eliezer says “rationalists win.”
The second meaning means something like “doing your own analysis and calculations to create or derive a system which, in some theoretical but not real world where it is implemented by everybody INSTEAD of the existing system, would be (according to your own calculations) better than the existing system.”
You are NOT using rational in the same sense in the two places it is used in that sentence.
The first rational means something like “optimal,” or like “winning” when Eliezer says “rationalists win.”
The second meaning means something like “doing your own analysis and calculations to create or derive a system which, in some theoretical but not real world where it is implemented by everybody INSTEAD of the existing system, would be (according to your own calculations) better than the existing system.”