"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
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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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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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the phenomenon of "probability matching" (a kind of ideal sampling) seems to happen at the group level more than individual
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