11. If the normal syndrome of epistemic irrationality is instrumentally rational, then you've got to choose your irrationality.
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So: Truth is worth cost to you if you can use it to better impact world. If not, it's still a noble act of societal cooperation, like voting
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I think it's hard to quantify importance, I'm just claiming it IS important (and underrated in general, I guess)
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Sure. But I think there's a tension, too, between behaviours which maximize accuracy & which maximize creativity. Can't always have both.
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I think there are big gains to accuracy that cost little creativity. Even just "Be interested in whether you're wrong" is a huge step up
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As an individual I expect I'd mostly agree. But collectively I'd probably disagree. A lot of important truths come from v. irrational ppl.
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Michael, do you have examples of truths arrived at through irrationality?
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Slavishly following scientific norms without understanding them still produces results.
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