It’s on a scale. Some people are closer to the ideal, and I wonder what 100% human rationality would look like. (Maybe it wouldn’t look like anything specific, because the person would strategically hide their superpowers.)
But even then, it makes sense to worry how much of the imperfect rationality is performance, or groupthink.
One approach is to judge by outcomes (what has changed in your life since you started “doing rationality”), but you usually do not know what the alternative would like, and it is difficult to say which parts were mere luck. Or sometimes it is like you need to do all of X, Y, Z perfectly in order to achieve a certain outcome, and you genuinely improved at X and Y, but made no progress on Z yet, so the outcome is zero.
For epistemic rationality, it is difficult to say whether your understanding has improved, or you are in a bubble.
It’s on a scale. Some people are closer to the ideal, and I wonder what 100% human rationality would look like. (Maybe it wouldn’t look like anything specific, because the person would strategically hide their superpowers.)
But even then, it makes sense to worry how much of the imperfect rationality is performance, or groupthink.
One approach is to judge by outcomes (what has changed in your life since you started “doing rationality”), but you usually do not know what the alternative would like, and it is difficult to say which parts were mere luck. Or sometimes it is like you need to do all of X, Y, Z perfectly in order to achieve a certain outcome, and you genuinely improved at X and Y, but made no progress on Z yet, so the outcome is zero.
For epistemic rationality, it is difficult to say whether your understanding has improved, or you are in a bubble.