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

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

The Monopoly Game

I'm not sure how it would be how how the analogy would map from directly but so I mean I'm you know if the monopoly game was supposed to be just an ally the analogy to belief game which is how I was originally setting it up then it would just be you would lose the game on purpose sometimes. Many people do successfully grow up in environments where they are trained in habits of dating and professional competition and school such that they assimilate habits that are basically optimistic lies yeah. They can quite successfully be not truth oriented in those strategies absolutely, he says.

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