So, @Meaningness has been posting recently on the general theme that (to heavily abbreviate...) "virtue signalling" should not be condemned because it may not be separable from virtue itself. I even participated with a comment intended to say virtue signalling may be inevitable.
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As you doubtless know, when we built machines that would either believe things or not, or believe things to a specific degree, those machines utterly failed at the tasks to which human beings apply belief. Our brains don't work the way we introspectively think they do.
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Yes, I have made myself unpopular by saying this for three decades so far :)
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I think zealots don’t realize that they often don’t believe the things they fervently claim to believe. It’s not that the believe the opposite, it’s that they haven’t actually got any specific attitude toward the content. They are, instead, replaying rewarded verbal behaviors.
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Agreed, 'belief' is one of those things that gets fuzzier the more closely you examine it; everything is shorthand. In this case 'honest' and 'belief' correlate as do 'dishonest' and 'disbelief' for some handwavy labeling of both.
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