I think you are misunderstanding me. The point is that there are two scenarios:
1) Someone doesn't really know anything about some subject. But they find a conspiracy scenario appealing because they would rather "know" an explanation with little evidence behind it, rather than admit that they don't know.
2) Information definitely is being hidden from someone, and they say "I want to know that information:".
Both of these involve someone wanting to know, but "wanting to know" is being used in very different ways. If you say that people should "learn to live without knowing things", that's a good point in the first scenario but not so good in the second scenario. And the second scenario is what's taking place for the information that has been censored from lesswrong. (Considering that your reply was pretty much all about 9/11, do you even know what is being referred to by information that has been censored from lesswrong?)
2) Information definitely is being hidden from someone, and they say "I want to know that information:".
In the case of 9/11 there is definitely information that's hidden. Anybody who roughly understands how the US government works should expect that's true. Anybody who studies the issue in detail will find out that's true.
do you even know what is being referred to by information that has been censored from lesswrong
Yes, I'm aware of three different instances in which information got censored on Lesswrong. There are additional instances whe...
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