Verifying rationality is possibly the single largest problem for those desiring to create methods of systematically training for increased epistemic and instrumental rationality - how to verify that the training actually worked. Very Awful Things happen to people who set out to build training methods and schools without strong means of verification - two hideous historical examples being modern-day practice of martial arts (once the teachers are no longer fighting duels to the death) and the proliferating "schools" of psychotherapy (in the entire absence of any experimental evidence that one school worked better than another, and indeed, in the presence of experimental evidence that the schools did notno have any discernible difference in effectiveness).
Verifying rationality is possibly the single largest problem for those desiring to create methods of systematically training for increased epistemic and instrumental rationality - how to verify that the training actually worked. Very Awful Things happen to people who set out to build training methods and schools without strong means of verification - two hideous historical examples being modern-day practice of martial arts (once the teachers are no longer fighting duels to the death) and the proliferating "schools" of psychotherapy (in the entire absence of any experimental evidence that one school worked better than another, and indeed, in the presence of experimental evidence that the schools did not have any discernible difference in effectiveness).
I think there's place for both of them. Someone can be rational and not have expertise in field X, and someone can have expertise in field X without having general rationality.
Also skill/expertise assessment feels more other-focused, while rationality verification is in large part about self assessment.
btw, i don't see any revision history on that tag. maybe it was changed before the history feature was implemented? (Was there a time without the history feature?)
Note that I think this tag:
https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/skill-expertise-assessment
Was originally called rationality verification, and then felt too narrow and I changed it something broader, and maybe we should have an explicit rationality-verification tag but I expect at least the current version to be a bit redundant.
I think revision history probably doesn't capture name changes. (But I also might be misremembering the history)