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Why is Truth Good? (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with William Eliot)

Minds Almost Meeting

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Evolution - Truth Helps You Not Die

truth is something that has in a sense of life for evolution because it gives you the best tool for working out how to stay alive and thrive right well say you know your or some parts of your mind using this truth orientation would realize that launching yourself into battle at the head of the attack force might lead you to die yes. But other parts ofyour mind realize that declaring to your fellow compatriots that that is exactly what you would do may also be exactly a winning strategy. I think that angle of evolution here is interesting kind of we talked a lot about evolution last podcast but I asked this I asked my friend this question as this question about truth whether or nottruth is something that we can we

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