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Whee, references!
We create technologies to help us do stuff better - Taras' sword being only one example. Why not a technology to help us think better? Heck, there are plenty of "mental technologies" besides Rationality - a great example would be the Memory Palace visualization technique (it's featured in an episode of Sherlock, for bonus reference points, but it's not portrayed very well; Google it instead.)