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

Minds Almost Meeting

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The Isosceles Triad Is a Social Structure

Winning and losing is purely socially constructed I think. The true state is the state where the person you thought win wins, he says. He gives a thought experiment that just came up with so suppose we had Robin Hansen's utility function right and someone knows it and so they know all of the things that you're trying to bring about in your life. And obviously your own learning of truths serve on your view  it serves this utility function Right? So do you believe them okay that like here's a bunch of false hoods which if you were to delete yourself into coming to believe them overall yes you're gonna have more utility give you a utility function Here's a pill you can take

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