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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 13 July 2010 10:01:07PM 0 points [-]

This seems like it should generally be true but in practice I haven't encountered any plausible examples where I prefer ignorance. This includes a number of hypotheticals where many people claim they would prefer ignorance which leads me to believe the value I place on truth is outside the norm.

I agree with this, my objection is to the particular argument you used, not necessarily the implied conclusion.