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Dennis HackethalOP revised about 12 hours ago·#2281

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Rational Decision-Making

Expanding on #2112…

If an idea, as written, has no pending criticisms, it’s rational to adopt it and irrational to reject it. What reason could you have to reject it? If it has no pending criticisms, then either 1) no reasons to reject it (ie, criticisms) have been suggested or 2) all suggested reasons have been addressed already.

If an idea, as written, does have pending criticisms, it’s irrational to adopt it and rational to reject it – by reference to those criticisms. What reason could you have to ignore the pending criticisms and adopt it anyway?

Dennis HackethalOP, 7 days ago·#2144

If an idea has no pending criticisms, it’s rational to adopt it and irrational to reject it.

What if there are multiple ideas with no pending criticisms?

Dennis HackethalOP, 7 days ago·#2145

Then you can go with the more battle-tested one (see #1948). Or you can pick one at random. Doesn’t matter.