nyralech comments on Rational vs Reasonable - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Pancho_Iba 14 July 2015 11:10:25PM 0 points [-]

So, should I seek for reasonableness or rationality to prevail, whenever the rational is outside the Overton window? My dilemma is that I find more pleasure on being rational, so rationality stands I should seek for rationality, whereas the reasonable thing to do would be to stand with reasonableness and shut up.

The point is: whenever I can't decide on one over the other, which criterion should I use to make the decission, since each seems to point towards itself? This is fun.

Comment author: nyralech 14 July 2015 11:32:53PM 1 point [-]

If being reasonable is necessary to your goals, then it is already instrumentally rational to be reasonable.