Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.

Through rationality we shall become awesome, and invent and test systematic methods for making people awesome, and plot to optimize everything in sight, and the more fun we have the more people will want to join us.

Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.

If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of donating your money to the society for curing rare diseases and cute puppies.

Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?

After all, if you had the complete decision process, you could run it as an AI, and I'd be coding it up right now.

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.