Someday you should blog on what you mean by "emotional truth".
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Replying to @robinhanson @bryan_caplan
He did - check his blog post on The Purge.
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Replying to @kingharis @robinhanson
More a reference than an explanation: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/11/hobbesian_misan.html …
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Quick but incomplete answer for
@robinhanson: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2017/05/what_is_emotion.html …2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @bryan_caplan @kingharis
Some stories are indeed more "compelling", but it seems misleading to call those more "true." https://www.overcomingbias.com/2017/05/compelling-accurate.html …
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It's true the way that abc : abd :: xyz: ? has the true completion wyz, even if most of the time people reply xyd.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @robinhanson and
Emotional truth isn't about the most common emotion & outcome, it's about the emotion & outcome that *fits* and snaps everything into place.
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That sounds to me the same as saying those are the "compelling" emotions & outcomes. Is what ways is that "true" beyond "truly compelling"?
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E.g. consoling yourself by saying death is natural, trying to convince yourself you don't want to live, is an emotional generalized-lie.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @robinhanson and
It's not a lie because there's a True emotion written on stone, but because there's a more fitting answer you're motivated to overlook.
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When a protagonist rejects the standard high-cognitive-temperature bad answer and completes the sentence better, we say "emotional truth!"
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