"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
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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Google 'truth maintenance systems' for a treasure trove of AI research on this... Much of it misguided, but in revealing ways
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this is actually one of the foundations of knowledge representations that lead to finding this:https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/767142618597916679 …
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