This just seems like a very strange and restrictive way to model real-life problems, and it just seems to export the meat of the problem (taking into account pr

This just seems like a very strange and restrictive way to model real-life problems, and it just seems to export the meat of the problem (taking into account priors, what exactly is bias, and if it's possible to be aware of it); for instance, I imagine that many people who subscribe to LW thought are probably uncritical of the ideological function of liberal democracy, for instance - or rationality being used to justify the status quo. These sort of things were taken up by critical theory, so there seems to be some overlap between critical theory and what it is to be rational. I fear that a faith in mathematical reasoning for all problems can easily make you come out the other end thinking your opinions are mathematically correct, with minimal reflection on core issues such as the applicability of classical logical models or a mechanistic view of how people do (or ought to) behave - this kind of uncritical historically divorced reflection has not fared well in the past, with even economists admitting their model of the economic man is as much fiction as their worldwide Robinson Crusoe from a century earlier.