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Believe Less.
As in, believe fewer things and believe them less strongly? By assigning lower odds to beliefs, in order to fight overconfidence? Just making sure I'm interpreting correctly.
don't bother to hold beliefs on the kind of abstract topics
I've read this sentiment from you a couple times, and don't understand the motive. Have you written about it more in depth somewhere?
I would have argued the opposite. It seems like societal acceptance is almost irrelevant as evidence of whether that world is desirable.
Yes believe fewer things and believe them less strongly. On abstract beliefs I'm not following you. The usual motive for most people is that they don't need most abstract beliefs to live their lives.