"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
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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betrayal and shame suck as emotions so you can see why we'd want to be in groups with relatively stable, widely-shared worldviews
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a culture might also provide tools for holding beliefs while minimizing the cost of updating: irony, goofiness, levels of anonymity, fiction
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yes, and often just boring, familiar misery. Especially if it’s a fake that you fall for repeatedly.
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in a way that's the most interesting kind of fake, ones we can't grow defenses against
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I've run into this with people who aren't willing to confront that they've been enabling a sociopath.
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reminds me i need to finish
@hintjens psychopath code
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Depends on how you were wrong? Best: wrong about banal fact with low identity coupling. Worst case, your nemesis was right.
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