A couple of thoughts on the post rat sentiment of "who cares about truth, I just want to thrive". On its face there's nothing wrong with refusing to have opinions on things and focusing on personal growth and overcoming trauma and all that stuff. BUT...
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1. Big if true! How would we know if it's true? 2. Two of your last three posts are about biosecurity and Roth IRAs, you're fine. I'm with you 100% that one should not strive to have an opinion about every single thing. That's the failure mode of journalists and philosophers.
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I'm not sure we disagree about much :) Re (1), this is practically untestable via traditional methods; pure intuition, make of that what you will, something something indexicality
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what if believing in one wrong thing permits you to believe in two right things you otherwise wouldn't be able to handle?
I suspect this constraint exists in practice
or put another way, there are limits to how many things one can usefully believe at any given time