@admittedlyhuman @The_Lagrangian Thoughts can be painful when they conflict w/ your reality.
Not the only reason, but one worth considering.
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The Kullback–Leibler divergence between your prior & posterior joint distributions (maps) of reality measures your success as a rationalist.
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If truth starts hurting your beliefs, just embrace the pain as an increase on your eternal torture
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How did you respond to this AFTER I sent it?!? ;)
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This seems like a strawman for "True belief hurts your values, so abandon truth and take up other belief"
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It's intended to just concisely restate
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I abandoned all my beliefs and it didn't stop hurting, please advise
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