If you’re going to intentionally choose false beliefs, you should at least be careful to also install an aversion to using these beliefs to decide other questions you care about such as which intellectual institutions to trust, and an aversion to passing these beliefs on to other people. It’s one thing to nuke your brain and quite another to fail to encase it in lead afterward.
If you’re going to intentionally choose false beliefs, you should at least be careful to also install an aversion to using these beliefs to decide other questions you care about such as which intellectual institutions to trust, and an aversion to passing these beliefs on to other people. It’s one thing to nuke your brain and quite another to fail to encase it in lead afterward.