Why is Truth Good? (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with William Eliot)
Minds Almost Meeting
The Gravitational Pull
The quality of its goodness is somehow more closely bonded with the thing itself as opposed to this truth which is a big circle around everything. Even though we mostly think we want to acquire more truth I found out in the process of writing elephant in the brain that we too easily make that assumption so the elephant in thebrain is a project whereby we look for the hidden motives in life and it's easy beforehand to say yes I want to know what the hidden motive in life are for myself and other people.
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