SoullessAutomaton comments on Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 09 April 2009 10:35:13AM 4 points [-]

I strongly suspect that it is unreasonable to expect people to actively apply x-rationality on a frequent, conscious basis--to do so would be to fight against human cognitive architecture, and that won't end well.

Most of our decisions are subconscious. We won't be changing this. The place of x-rationality is not to make on-the-spot decisions, it's to provide a sanity check on those decisions and, as necessary, retrain the subconscious decision making processes to better approximate rationality.