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

Minds Almost Meeting

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What Is Your Orientation to the Truth?

I think part of what makes our orientation to the truth just a little bit puzzling is this kind of openness where I'm like I just want to know which way it is whichever way it is. In that framing then people are clearly saying that truth orientation is better their group is right more because of that. People claim that really deep down the other people know they aren't being so truth oriented, he says. It's very common for people to describe the difference between their political group and other people's political groups as that theirs is more truth-oriented.

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