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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I find minimizing commitment to broad opinions makes it easier for me to settle on novel and useful evaluations of new information and situations something like bottom-up rather than top-down evaluation, if I were to write an essay about it and,
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I think foolish commitment to broad opinions is a common failure mode I've noticed here and declaiming commitments helps me avoid that at a low cost something isomorphic to Keep Your Identity Small maybe. Anyway godbless :)
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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