Crony Beliefs — new Melting Asphalt post on epistemic legitimacy vs. epistemic corruption http://www.meltingasphalt.com/crony-beliefs/
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great post, but what about believing to satisfy your self-image? E.g I'm a contrarian so I prefer contrarian beliefs.
great question. I really wish I addressed this in the post =/. short answer: our "selves" exist partly to play social games
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so what we do for our "selves" is in part a rehearsal for making good impressions on others. (this is my view at any rate.)
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longer answer is I've literally written a book about this =].
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