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I was thinking about whether telling someone I'm an aspiring optimizer is going to result in less confusion than telling them that I'm an aspiring rationalist. I think that the term 'optimizer' needs a little more specification to work; how about Decision Optimization? If I tell someone I'm working on decision optimization, I pretty effectively convey what I'm doing - learning and practicing heuristics in order to make better decisions.
I probably agree that "I'm working on decision optimization" conveys more information in that case than "I'm working on rationality" but I suspect that neither is really what I'd want to say in a similar situation... I'd probably say instead that "I'm working on making more consistent probability estimates," or "I'm working on updating my beliefs based on contradictory evidence rather than rejecting it," or whatever it was. (Conversely, if I didn't know what I was working on more specifically, I would question how I knew I was working on it.)