If I give you any bit of plausible information, your mind will update. An update that changes the density of beliefs in an area of the space of possible beliefs is likely to change the curvature of that area and your trajectory when moving through belief space.
I think that as a first approximation, truth is always good for you. But if someone feeds you truth very selectively, it can be worse than lying, because it is much harder to detect. (This is why many Americans believe that Putin hacked their elections, for instance.)
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No I mean, it's easier to make a child hate themselves than an adult, because they don't have much information in their heads? Or the amount of information currently owned doesn't matter when it comes to receiving new information?
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I think that children don’t have deep self models yet, and no causal closure of physics. In their world, things still happen through moral forces.
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