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