"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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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
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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i became a rationalist because getting caught committing unjustifiable epistemic moves was too painful
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but you're the goofiest
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makes me think of that Rich Hickey talk where he says "facts are places where information is stored":https://youtu.be/-6BsiVyC1kM
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