1) true information can have negative value 2) the above may be precisely that kind of information
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
3) brains can tie themselves into topologically impossible knots s.t. they are literally up their own asses
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing like a Klein bottle drinking its own kool-aid1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@KevinSimler@sarahdoingthing If you do game theory, see for https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/misbeliefs-evolution-and-games-a-positive-case/ … Beliefs are adaptive, not necessarily true.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@robamacl@KevinSimler "strategic ignorance" - e.g. people tend to believe smoking is much more dangerous than it is http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.319.3056&rep=rep1&type=pdf …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing@robamacl that trick only works because our minds are already poisoned by bad-faith incentives, right?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @KevinSimler
@sarahdoingthing@robamacl if our brains weren't adapted to social games, we wouldn't be able to use self-deception as a hack2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@KevinSimler @sarahdoingthing @robamacl Also, you have some control over which games you actually choose to play, which complicates things.
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