And indeed, if you have the option of compartmentalizing your rationality
Not sure if you do? What you are describing here sounds very much like self deception. “Choosing to be Biased” is literally in the title of that article, which sounds exactly like what you are describing.
The other option instead of deceiving yourself is to only deceive others. Buy my impression so far has been that many rationalists take issue with intentional lying.
I have mostly accepted that I take this second choice in social situations where “lying”/”manipulation” is what’s expected and what everyone does subconsciously/habitually, as I think self deception would be even worse. (But I am open to suggestions if someone has a more ethical method for existing in social reality.)
you maybe mostly win by getting other people “on your side” in a thousand different ways, and so motivated reasoning is more rewarded.
This kind of deception/manipulation of others sounds exactly what you called unethical in this comment. (But maybe you were thinking of something else in that context, and I am not seeing the difference?) You basically said that manipulating other people is unethical whether someone is doing it intentionally or not.
Not sure if you do? What you are describing here sounds very much like self deception. “Choosing to be Biased” is literally in the title of that article, which sounds exactly like what you are describing.
The other option instead of deceiving yourself is to only deceive others. Buy my impression so far has been that many rationalists take issue with intentional lying.
I have mostly accepted that I take this second choice in social situations where “lying”/”manipulation” is what’s expected and what everyone does subconsciously/habitually, as I think self deception would be even worse. (But I am open to suggestions if someone has a more ethical method for existing in social reality.)
This kind of deception/manipulation of others sounds exactly what you called unethical in this comment. (But maybe you were thinking of something else in that context, and I am not seeing the difference?) You basically said that manipulating other people is unethical whether someone is doing it intentionally or not.