Also I really would like an example of a case where I stuck my head out about decision theory and it was chopped off; I think there’s a serious risk that you’re overgeneralizing, especially as I never had much confidence in (my appraisal of) the worth of the parapsychology literature in the first place.
ETA: My interest in parapsychology was explicitly the result of rationalization; I started out by thinking that psi was real, then looked at the literature to see which parts seemed like legitimate support of that known fact. Unsurprisingly the rationalized findings weren’t as good as they seemed. This style of model-building has very little to do with the style of model-building I use when actually thinking, e.g. thinking about decision theory or moral philosophy generally.
Also I really would like an example of a case where I stuck my head out about decision theory and it was chopped off; I think there’s a serious risk that you’re overgeneralizing, especially as I never had much confidence in (my appraisal of) the worth of the parapsychology literature in the first place.
ETA: My interest in parapsychology was explicitly the result of rationalization; I started out by thinking that psi was real, then looked at the literature to see which parts seemed like legitimate support of that known fact. Unsurprisingly the rationalized findings weren’t as good as they seemed. This style of model-building has very little to do with the style of model-building I use when actually thinking, e.g. thinking about decision theory or moral philosophy generally.