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This is true, but why privilege rationality? Integrity, kindness and other desirable traits scale the same way and are probably just as important.
Because this is a site about rationality.
Kindness will only affect decisions where altruistic behavior wouldn't occur if lacking kindness. Integrity I'm even less sure about. Rationality could affect any decision where bias or fuzzy reasoning is involved, which is almost every decision.
More kindness and less rationality could result in spending billions on curing rare diseases of cute puppies. However, more rationality and kindness, that would work great.
It would be hard to do this more that we already are, since pretty much every disease you can think of has been "cured" in lab mice, and many of them in dogs. I was always wondering why we would spend so much money on treating housemice and dogs, now I know it's just the kind thing to do.