But do you agree that beliefs can have more uses than predictive accuracy?
If believing something that is false will give you a net benefit should you believe in it, even though it is false?
Without equivocating, net benefit should mean net benefit, so the answer is “of course”. Saying no is making predictive accuracy override net benefit to all your values—making it into a fetish, a fixed idea.
But do you agree that beliefs can have more uses than predictive accuracy?
Without equivocating, net benefit should mean net benefit, so the answer is “of course”. Saying no is making predictive accuracy override net benefit to all your values—making it into a fetish, a fixed idea.