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

Minds Almost Meeting

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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.

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