Ordinary Banana

"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

the meager rewards of insight and humility are hardly a match - rational utility maximizers should often choose to stay deceived

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