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This seems to suggest that compared to theism, atheism is inherently demotivating for some people (namely those whose "social primate emotional needs" are not being met), since they can no longer fall back to "God" as an agent whose answer would be important enough. So this could be another way that Being Okay with the Truth may be false.
I have no trouble conjuring hypothetical extrapolated superintelligent friendly future versions of myself that have deity-like knowledge relevant to the first referent of purpose.
This gives me an acceptable substitute solution when I find an unknown object of unknown creation that may or may not have some purpose in the mind of some agents at some point(s) in time.
Is this a possible escape route?
I wonder if this is ever true for people who've never been theists. No wonder nothing else seems important anymore after importance has been anchored to godhood.