1) true information can have negative value 2) the above may be precisely that kind of information
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@robamacl@KevinSimler "strategic ignorance" - e.g. people tend to believe smoking is much more dangerous than it is http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.319.3056&rep=rep1&type=pdf …
@sarahdoingthing @robamacl that trick only works because our minds are already poisoned by bad-faith incentives, right?
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@sarahdoingthing@robamacl if our brains weren't adapted to social games, we wouldn't be able to use self-deception as a hack -
@KevinSimler@sarahdoingthing If we weren't adapted to social games, we wouldn't need a "self" or "conscious intention".
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