This is a "truth, glorious truth post". And the comments were mostly just nodding. Less Wrong is full of this sort of truth-worshiping. The observation that truth has a price seems trivially-obvious to me, but it seems to me that a number of other people around here don't get it - and don't like it being pointed out to them.

That seems like an unsympathetic reading. Personally, I can't see the "mystical bullshit" interpretation after looking.

The original post ignored the costs of the truth. It seemed to me that someone needed to alert the nodding readership to the uncomfortable fact the truth has a price.

Heh. I wrote my comment before reading yours, and I expressed exactly the same conclusion.

Check with the post's first paragraph. What it says it is about is how "one can only gain from having true information". In fact, most truths in the universe are bad for us, because of their costs - thus my reality check.