Looking at things a bit more, maybe practical vs rationality is supposed to cover what I want instrumental rationality vs epistemic rationality to cover? But if so I don’t find those descriptions very intuitive and don’t expect people to apply them correctly.
I think the combination of the Rationality and Practical tags gets pretty close to what you want, but to get all the way there you also would add the Motivations tag. Ie
I think the real reason we didn’t make Epistemic & Instrumental core tags was because when we tried tagging sample posts, too large a fraction of posts hit corner cases and failed to be well classified by the distinction.
Looking at things a bit more, maybe practical vs rationality is supposed to cover what I want instrumental rationality vs epistemic rationality to cover? But if so I don’t find those descriptions very intuitive and don’t expect people to apply them correctly.
I think the combination of the Rationality and Practical tags gets pretty close to what you want, but to get all the way there you also would add the Motivations tag. Ie
Epistemic Rationality = Rationality & !Practical & !Motivations
Instrumental Rationality = Practical | Motivations
I think the real reason we didn’t make Epistemic & Instrumental core tags was because when we tried tagging sample posts, too large a fraction of posts hit corner cases and failed to be well classified by the distinction.
What’s the idea behind “motivations”? I don’t understand what your proposal is.
Edit: Ah, hadn’t read Habryka’s comment yet :p