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

Minds Almost Meeting

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The Preference Lever Is More Movable Than the Cognitive Lever

Robin Williams: I think rot is a concept that is hard to bring into mind for people who don't have a lot of experience with complicated systems. He says the reason we want to be believe us choose in order to pursue what's good isn't captured as well by our culture or language. The way he sees it, evolution hacked your mind because you could just make one win and another lose in order to move your ancestors toward what I wanted. You know not get you get it in general in an elegant way that'll make it easier to make more changes so  your mind is hacked your mind is a whole collection of hacks evolution hacking your mind.

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