Problem of verifying rationality
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The single largest problem for those desiring to create methods of systematically training for increased epistemic and instrumental rationality - how to verify that the training actually worked. Very Awful Things happen to people who set out to build training methods and schools without strong means of verification - two hideous historical examples being modern-day practice of martial arts (once the teachers are no longer fighting duels to the death) and the proliferating "schools" of psychotherapy (in the entire absence of any experimental evidence that one school worked better than another, and indeed, in the presence of experimental evidence that the schools did not have any discernible difference in effectiveness).
Blog posts
- Test Your Rationality by Robin Hanson - You should try hard and often to test your rationality, but how can you do that?
- Rationality Toughness Tests by Robin Hanson
- The Martial Art of Rationality
- A Sense That More Is Possible
- Epistemic Viciousness
- Schools Proliferating Without Evidence
- 3 Levels of Rationality Verification
- In What Ways Have You Become Stronger? by Vladimir Nesov
- The Correct Contrarian Cluster
- 3 Levels of Rationality Verification