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1 – What Use is Rationality?

The Bayesian Conspiracy

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The Importance of Focusing on the Truth in Political Campaigning

I think once you stop caring about the truth in order to pursue your agenda, then the truth is forever your enemy. You don't want to be on the wrong side of, of, you know, reality because eventually it's going to win. So which brings us to what we're going to try to focus on, which is epistemic rationality in pursuit of the truth rather than in pursuit of goals. I like them both because I probably use rationality more as, as a, as instrumentally than empirically.

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