simplicio comments on Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: simplicio 30 October 2010 06:56:36AM 6 points [-]

I see your point. I agree that these people are moving away from a local optimum of happiness by gaining true beliefs.

As to the global optimum, it's hard to say. I guess it's plausible that the best of all possible happinesses involves false beliefs. Does it make sense that I have a strong ethical intuition to reject that kind of happiness?

(Anecdotally, I find the more I know about my loved ones' foibles, the more I look on them fondly as fellow creatures.)