Sometimes I wonder if I'm an actual rationalist that does actual rationality or if it's all just performative and I just think I do it in order to feel good about myself
It's on a scale. Some people are closer to the ideal, and I wonder what 100% human rationality would look like. (Maybe it wouldn't look like anything specific, because the person would strategically hide their superpowers.)
But even then, it makes sense to worry how much of the imperfect rationality is performance, or groupthink.
One approach is to judge by outcomes (what has changed in your life since you started "doing rationality"), but you usually do not know what the alternative would like, and it is difficult to say which parts were mere luck. Or somet... (read more)
