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I think Yvain's points focus on how rationality doesn't improve a person's entire life as much as we would expect. I'm hoping that rationality improves job performance a lot more than it does life performance.
My guess it that, if you asked people how much intelligence/rationality affects job performance, they would say that the distribution of performance levels is distributed the same way IQ or height is distributed (with a normal distribution, and a very few people having 1.5 times the average performance). My expectation is that, instead, if you measured
you'd find that measurement to increase geometrically or exponentially with f(intelligence, rationality, education), whereas most people would expect it to increase linearly or less.
I think that rationality improves life performance more than it does most types of job performance. Life is more complex than most jobs and accommodates far more diverse strategies.
Then you should have commented on Yvain's post. :)
I've repeatedly heard you say (correct me if this is a misinterpretation) that very smart people are dysfunctional more often than average people. How do you reconcile these views? Does "rationality" default to "rational life behavior" rather than "rational problem-solving"? Would you describe these people as very smart but irrational?
The people we're talking about have partitioned their lives into things they're rational about, and things that they're not. But we all do that to some extent. I think you're saying something like, "Rationality in life decisions improves life performance more than rationality in life decisions improves job performance."