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Welcome to LessWrong. Our goal is to improve ourselves. Most importantly, we are trying to learn how to avoid believing things that are false. This is harder than it sounds, like someone trying to figure out whether she likes a painting because it appeals to her artistic sensibilities, or simply because her teachers unconsciously favored the painting when teaching her. We certainly don't think that you must abandon creativity or emotion in order to improve yourself. Maybe your self-improvement will help you express your creativity more effectively.
Anyway, we love questions and debate. Feel free to post in the current open thread.
Note: Misleading sentence removed.
You don't learn which true things to believe or which false things to disbelieve. You learn (how to figure out) which things are true or false.
It's hard to write a sentence about believing true things that (1) isn't cult-ish and (2) retains the parallelism with the next sentence (which is the more important sentence). Since you think the sentence is misleading, I'll remove it.