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Comment author: PhilGoetz 05 October 2011 02:27:54AM *  0 points [-]

Why do you expect happiness-causing beliefs to have a relationship to truthful beliefs?

The post already is the answer to this question. The relationship posited is explaining-away, in the Bayesian sense.

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