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

Minds Almost Meeting

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Is There Circularity in the Decision Theory?

The way they started was this point of like such circularity or at least where I could sniff some circularity. But maybe that's maybe that's an illusion in the law itself. That is there are two different concepts that he's bringing in. One is which world is the actual world and the other is how what bearing does that have on our decisions, right? So I think it might help to try to paint the picture of the non-truth-oriented people in as vivid a way as possible because I think if you look at that picture in a detail you will see a version of truth there too.

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