How would you tell, without looking at the hooks that make ideas convincing? Think of fear, hope jealousy, existential dread, love, loneliness, pain, vanity...
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Replying to @gremlinboots @likeplastic_
So, emotion is confused, therefore emotion “good delusion” indicates that you are not confused? :)
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Good/bad give rise to a system of meaning that most people find more powerful and convincing than true/false.
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You don’t have to. Rationality itself is a tool, not a norm. It is fully if-then. You can construct yourself a rationalist norm (truth is preferable to untruth) or an antirationalist one (some truths are bad and must be suppressed), but that requires additional assumptions.
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Yes, perceptual truth is merely a measure of a degree of coherence to other beliefs. Almost-truth can lead you arbitrarily astray.
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