There is no such thing as truth; there are only things which we do not know to be false yet. People give their lives a direction based on a series of working hypotheses. What works matters more than what is true.https://twitter.com/Plinz/status/1047534101891170305 …
See? You were thinking pretty hard and found a good way to justify almost arbitrary amounts of self deception
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See what? What self deception? Does anyone actually understand what
@Plinz is trying to say here? Source of my argument is Popper's theory of falsification. If you don't know what that is, then Google it. -
I may have expressed myself in less than suitable ways. What I wanted to express is not that you are doing that, but that your argument can be understood as a thoughtful way to justify why you should not optimize for truth.
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