"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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i became a rationalist because getting caught committing unjustifiable epistemic moves was too painful
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incidentally, this is also how i became a person with no opinions
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