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39 Post author: RobinHanson 01 March 2009 01:21PM

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Comment author: RobinHanson 01 March 2009 09:28:30PM 6 points [-]

I understand "rational" people "win" at the goal of believing the truth, but that goal may be in conflict with more familiar "success" goals. So the people around us we see as succeeding may not have paid the costs required to believe the truth.