thomblake comments on Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 09 June 2010 02:43:58PM 0 points [-]

Are people really disputing whether or not accurate beliefs about the world are adaptive?

That seems a likely area of dispute. Having accurate beliefs seems, ceteris paribus, to be better for you than inaccurate beliefs (though I can make up as many counterexamples as you'd like). But that still leaves open the question of whether it's better than no beliefs at all.