RichardKennaway comments on What is missing from rationality? - Less Wrong
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Rationality is not about where you are but how you got there. Social pressure is not among its mechanisms.
Isn't rationality about winning?
Is a lottery winner rational to have bought a ticket?
No, but buying lottery tickets doesn't maximise expected utility. Social Pressures to follow-up on ideas you've critically assented to, but haven't executed yet because of arkrasia, might be.
Obviously, the example was a joke.
Systematized winning.