maybe doublethink is good maybe if the truth is too easily subverted it's good to fence it around with lies that you have to pretend to believe or be punished damned hard to believe it though
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Replying to @chaosprime
I keep going over in my mind the difference between believing something you don't know for certain to be true versus disbelieving something you have nearly certain evidence that it is true
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
the former is faith or hope. the latter is delusion. are they both varieties of double think?
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Replying to @danlistensto
i think so yeah, the negative/positive difference between them almost doesn't seem to signify
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Replying to @chaosprime
yeah, that's what I settled on too. there are qualitative (or at least instrumental) differences between them though. hope can be useful. delusion seems uniformly harmful.
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yeah, if nothing else active dismissal of inconvenient evidence is a filthy habit
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