mm_ wrote (edited )
I've noticed this a lot in economics where people will say 'you would expect the perfectly rational citizen to do X but studies show people do Y instead' and then later it's shown that Y actually is the rational choice for an unexpected 'meta-rational' reason.
hollyhoppet wrote
peoples' declaration of what is and is not rational in the first place is not often, if ever, a rational process
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