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Comment author: palladias 23 September 2012 06:04:41AM 1 point [-]

I don't know if this came up or will come up, but if " rationality is simply making the best decision to achieve one's goals, whatever they may be" what is the discipline that helps us check the goals we're optimizing for are the right ones?

Comment author: Slackson 23 September 2012 09:44:05AM 3 points [-]

To achieve your goals you're going to want to identify and define them first. Assuming one has inadequate knowledge of one's goals, a rational decision would be to clarify that knowledge to a point, whatever those goals happen to be.

Comment author: shminux 23 September 2012 08:24:25AM *  1 point [-]

rationality is simply making the best decision to achieve one's goals, whatever they may be

That would be the instrumental rationality.

what is the discipline that helps us check the goals we're optimizing for are the right ones?

That would be the epistemic one. According to the OP, both were discussed:

I used the definitions given in 'What Do We Mean By "Rationality"?' to describe epistemic and instrumental rationality

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