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Your postscript raises an interesting point. I strongly suspect that readers here can have a much greater impact on their real world success by improving arational traits like charisma and physical appearance than by continuing to strive for marginal gains in what are likely to be already-high levels of rationality. At the very least, it seems uncontroversial to say that these traits play a huge role in one's real world success. If we assume, then, that "real world success" is a rational objective, why isn't everyone here hitting the gym daily, working to improve their fashion sense, and enrolling in acting classes to improve social finesse?
And only rational means like practice, care to figure out what is working, looking at and beneath the surface features of what other successful people are doing, etc are going to improve real traits like charisma, physical appearance, etc.
Yes, but these are things most reasonably intelligent people know, or figure out, anyway. It seems correct to chalk up these insights to rationality, but trivially so. I don't see what extra work studying rationality per se would be doing for us here.