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Why is Truth Good? (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with William Eliot)
Minds Almost Meeting
Evolution's Making You Believe Something That Might Not Be True
There are times when evolution entices you to pretend to not believe you will be killed in situations where it does look like you would get killed. In order to win other social games why wouldn't it just have you believe like yes I might get killed but it's worth it? "Your mind is just this huge complicated amalgam of various processes with all sorts of complexities that evolution found it hard to manage"
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