"update your beliefs" makes it sound like there's a spreadsheet in your skull and you go in and change a value, no big deal
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actually finding out you were deceived or wrong has major emotional costs - a sense of betrayal, shame, the beckoning horror of chaos
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the meager rewards of insight and humility are hardly a match - rational utility maximizers should often choose to stay deceived
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and almost nobody is a reality enthusiast for its own sake. most of the emotional reward and risk is of being SEEN BY OTHERS as wrong
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seeking out information that challenges your deeply held beliefs is good but also like sticking your hand in the fire over and over
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betrayal and shame suck as emotions so you can see why we'd want to be in groups with relatively stable, widely-shared worldviews
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a culture might also provide tools for holding beliefs while minimizing the cost of updating: irony, goofiness, levels of anonymity, fiction
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Hope you are going to turn this tweet sequence into a post
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something about authenticity and fakeness and the role of affect in epistemology as practiced but with swears
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Seligman’s sincerity book made me want to read Lionel Trilling on authenticity but I haven’t. yet
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I can’t authentically use the word ‘authenticity’ any more, it just sounds so fake to me.
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