3min chapter

Minds Almost Meeting cover image

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

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

The Art of Fiction and the Bible and the Dark Side

I have my own theory of fiction of artistic fiction which is that they're designed to show us the bad side of life so there are you know Robin was bringing up the fact that like knowing which world you're in of all the possible worlds can be useful for making decisions. There's actually a lot of stuff you might learn that's not that useful for made decisions but it's just this opacity of cloud of an an understandable mess and at least a model shows them some patterns they can make sense of or otherwise they couldn't see.

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode