Comment on Rationality Lessons Learned from Irrational Adventures in Romance

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:32:16 GMT

Mostly agreed, but with a caveat... my expectations would depend somewhat on context.

If someone lives in a predominantly X environment and has the option of identifying as X but instead identifies as Y, I consider that noteworthy (though far from definitive) evidence that they're constructing their models of themselves based on observation rather than adopting the cultural default model unreflectively. Identifying as poly in some communities qualifies, to my mind.

Constructing models based on observed data is an important rationality skill, as is setting aside cultural assumptions when evaluating data.

Of course, that isn't at all the same thing as a correlation between being poly and being rational, but there's enough of a connection that the caveat seemed worth making.

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