Irrationality

Irrationality is cognition without rationality. This includes any thought, writing, speaking or actions that a person does without adequate reasoning behind them. It is often associated with lack of knowledge, awareness or lesser often mental illness, as the ability to think in a rational manner is part of the definition of having a sound mind, and also observed in people who are placed in stressful situations where the ability to rationalise actions is severely diminished. It's difficult to define any further because of the different subjective values of what counts as "rational" thinking.

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  • Cognitive biases
  • Mental health
  • Superstition
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  • Favouring Apple products.
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gollark: Probably at least 3 hard. Usefully extracting the many ores and such you want from things, and then processing them into usable materials probably involves a ton of different processes you have to ship on the space probe. Then you have to convert them into every different part you might need, meaning yet more machinery. And you have to do this with whatever possibly poor quality resources you find, automatically with no human to fix issues, accurately enough to reach whatever tolerances all the stuff needs, and have it stand up to damage on route.
gollark: 3.00005.
gollark: Without GregTech. I haven't used it recently, which is probably for the best.
gollark: If there wasn't that, I probably would have added a thing to isolate power from the main network and just run the storage bits.
gollark: Arguably, the system was quite overengineered.

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