wedrifid comments on Belief as Attire - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 August 2007 05:13PM

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Comment author: pnrjulius 14 April 2012 09:29:35PM 1 point [-]

You would put instrumental rationality above epistemic rationality?

So if it makes me happy to believe the Moon is made of cheese, I ought to do so?

Comment author: wedrifid 14 April 2012 11:22:14PM *  3 points [-]

You would put instrumental rationality above epistemic rationality?

So if it makes me happy to believe the Moon is made of cheese, I ought to do so?

If making yourself happy is, all things considered, what you want to do. (And then assuming that said belief modification is the most effective way to gain happiness.)