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"It doesn't really matter whether you're a moral realist or not - instrumental rationality is about achieving your goals, whether they're good goals or not."
It seems to me that moral realism is an epistemic claim - it is a statement about how the world is - or could be - and that is definitely a matter that impinges on rationality.