New open access paper: “The Marketplace of Rationalizations”. The basic idea: Motivated reasoning is subject to a rationalization constraint: people can only convince themselves of beliefs for which they can find appropriate rationalizations.
How hard is it to beat the marketplace of ideas? How efficient is the market? (on autodidacts, EA/rationalists, etc.)
- Could see different versions of the efficient market hypothesis and how they plug in to the marketplace of ideas idea.
cf the idea of takespace, and underexplored regions within it