Misaligned incentives have the useful property of being explicable and in our sphere of influence. They refer to agents, situations, and events, all of which constrain their possible descriptions.
Deceitful gods could take infinitely many possible shapes without constraint.
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Nobody is perfectly rational. We're all just muddling with messy brain models.
But there's a difference between trying, and not-trying.
Postrat twitter has this norm that trying is actually gauche and mocking it is always a good way back to vibes.
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Yeah I mainly want to argue with my friends who I think are smart and susceptible to reason.
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im just having flashbacks to ppl who hurt me because they were adhering to a system of thought that they werent bothering to sufficiently check was true
like "logic won't persuade me" feels like mega red flag huge warning danger destruction signs to me
and to be clear i am much less concerned about the final outcome of the belief than i am the process of getting there; if ur dedicated to trying good, healthy epistemic methods of figuring out how u might be wrong, then that's the thing that best helps avoid the pitfalls
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I was raised by young earth creationists who I still respect and love. My take is that most people need meaning/Truth and science is really good at disproving but not so good at proving. So the less comfortable you are with doubt, the scarier science is
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if this is the actual thing that drives you i wish you had just opened with that. your problem isn't with any particular belief, it's with a kind of person who holds beliefs in a kind of way that you've been hurt by
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it's not *just* that, otherwise i would have opened with that
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I feel like it’s worth clarifying here that while that is indeed a phrase lim wrote in plaintext, the wider context is that she’s a thoughtful person who regularly writes out elaborate threads articulating her thought processes + asks questions like “what if I’m wrong about this”
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