Re:winning, I was recently thinking about how to explain what my own goals are for which rationality is a key tool. One catch phrase I like is: source code access.
Here’s the idea: imagine that our whole world is a video game, and we’re all characters in it. This can mean the physical world, the economic world, the social world, all of the above, etc. My goal is to be able to read and modify the source code of the game.
That formulation makes the role of epistemic rationality quite central: we’re all agents embedded in this universe, we already have access to the source code of economic/social/other systems, the problem is that we don’t understand the code well enough to know what changes will have what effects.
Re:winning, I was recently thinking about how to explain what my own goals are for which rationality is a key tool. One catch phrase I like is: source code access.
Here’s the idea: imagine that our whole world is a video game, and we’re all characters in it. This can mean the physical world, the economic world, the social world, all of the above, etc. My goal is to be able to read and modify the source code of the game.
That formulation makes the role of epistemic rationality quite central: we’re all agents embedded in this universe, we already have access to the source code of economic/social/other systems, the problem is that we don’t understand the code well enough to know what changes will have what effects.
I really like this framing, and it resonates a lot with how I personally think about my orientation to the world.