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Great article, I have only this one comment:
"If your beliefs are entangled with reality, they should be contagious among honest folk."
Haven't true and false beliefs both proven to be contagious among honest folk? Just as we should not use a machine that beeps for all numbers as evidence for winning lottery numbers, we should not use whether or not a belief is contagious as evidence of its truth.
I don't think that Eliezer suggested using a belief's contagiousness as strong evidence of its truth. Rather, a belief's lack of contagiousness is strong evidence of its untruth.