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IQ is said to correlate with life success. If rationality is about 'winning at life' wouldn't it be sensible to define a measure of 'life success'? Like the average increase of some life success metric like income over time.
Bhutan's Gross National Happiness Index, and various indices inspired by it, attempt to measure this in populations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_economics
It's complicated, but maybe we could make some approximations. For example: "list ten things you care about, create a metric for each of them", providing a list of what people usually care about.
What purpose would such a measure serve? And do you try to find a universal measure or one that is individual for every person? Because different people have different goals, you could try to measure how well reality aligns with their goals, but then you just select for people who can accurately predict what they can achieve.
--Benjamin Zander
A crude check of how much you are lying to yourself, for example if you believe that reading LessWrong improved your life. You could enter some data and get the result that no, your life is approximately the same as it was ten years ago. On the other hand, you could also find an improvement that you didn't realize, because of hedonistic treadmill.
"He who dies with the most toys wins" :-P
See, that was before they invented chess...