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Well, one obvious connection is that sufficient degree of epistemic rationality is a prerequisite for instrumental rationality (but not vice versa).
Basically, if you're looking for the shortest way from A to B (instrumental), you can't find it unless your map is correct (epistemic) { or you're incredibly lucky :-D }. So epistemic rationality is the foundation, base for the instrumental rationality.
One of the implications is that ceteris paribus it's better to sacrifice instrumental for epistemic rather than epistemic for instrumental.
Nope. See Dennett's concept of competence without comprehension. You can be tremendously competent without a representational map.
And for a social species with tremendous power with respect to the rest of the world, it's the opinion of others that matters above all, and such good opinion can be had in the face of epistemic incompetence.