Dagon comments on Truth: It's Not That Great - Less Wrong

35 Post author: ChrisHallquist 04 May 2014 10:07PM

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Comment author: Dagon 05 May 2014 09:36:50AM 2 points [-]

Seems fairly uncontroversial to me, but that's likely because it stays far-mode. If you get specific and near-mode, I suspect you'll stir up some disagreement. Leave aside which beliefs you'd rather other people have or not have - that's a separate dark arts topic. For your own goal-achievement-ability, which true beliefs are you better off not having?

I completely agree that I have limited resources and need to prioritize which beliefs are important enough to spend resources on. I far less agree that true beliefs (in the paying rent sense of the word, those which have correct conditional probability assignments to your potential actions) ever have negative value.

Comment author: satt 07 May 2014 03:14:51AM 0 points [-]

For your own goal-achievement-ability, which true beliefs are you better off not having?

Nick Bostrom suggests some examples in his "Information Hazards" paper.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 May 2014 09:23:02PM 0 points [-]

That wasn't nearly as exciting as it sounded.