Comment on Branches of rationality

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:03:24 GMT

Do you ever find yourself in situations where you would predict different things if you thought you were a pure-intellectual-curiosity-satisfier than if you think you're in part a status-maximizer?

If so, is making more accurate predictions in such situations useful, or do accurate predictions not matter much?

I suspect that if I thought of myself as a pure-intellectual-curiosity-satisfier, I would be a lot more bewildered by my behavior and my choices than I am, and struggle with them a lot more than I do, and both of those would make me less happy.

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