How to be Rational about Rationality

Our knowledge of the world is fundamentally incomplete. Even if our knowledge of the world were complete, it would still be Computationally Near-Impossible. He says a fertile research program on ecological rationality came out of it. We need to avoid getting in unanticipated trouble.

Binmore says economic theory is not as strict in its definition of "utility" he says there is nothing irrational in giving your money to a stranger, if that's what makes you tick. He says he was a philosopher not an accountant; he never equated human interests. He says he never equated human interests and aims to narrow accounting book entries.

A Foundational principle of decision theory is that what goes on in the head of people isn’t the business of science. It is one that is at the basis of Neoclassical economics, rational choice, and similar disciplines. A Foundational principle of decision theory is that what goes on in the head of people isn’t the business of science. A Foundational principle of decision theory is that what goes on in the head of people isn’t the business of science.

Religion is here to enforce tail risk management across generations. He says we do not pay attention to what people say, only to what they do. Superstitions can be vectors for risk management rules, he says. If you dream of making people use probability in order to make decisions, it's incoherent to criticize someone’s superstitions.

There is a difference between beliefs that are decorative and different sorts of beliefs, those that map to action. The true difference reveals itself in risk-taking, having something at stake, something one could lose in case one is wrong. The fact that there is this decorative component to belief, life merits a discussion.

The classical Sophrosyne is precaution, self-control, and temperance, all in one. It assumes no randomness or a simplified random structure of our world. The only definition of rationality that is practically, empirically, and mathematically rigorous is that of survival. It may be “irrational” for people to have two sinks in their kitchen, one for meat and the other for dairy.

The Jewish Kashrut prescribes keeping four sets of dishes, two SINKS, the avoidance of mixing meat with dairy products and Interdicts on some animals. It most certainly brought cohesion and aided those that survived because it is a convex Heuristic. It is not what has conscious Verbalistic explanatory factors.