polymathwannabe comments on Open thread, 11-17 August 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion
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Once a Christian friend asked me why I cared so much about what he believed. Without thinking, I came up with, "What you think determines what you choose. If your idea of the world is inaccurate, your choices will fail."
This was years before I found LW and learned about the connection between epistemic and instrumental rationality.
P.S. My friend deconverted himself some years afterwards.