I think you’re equivocating a bit between information and truth. For example in the TV example, you would pay to get the information of what the ending is. It would make more sense to talk about the truth of the show’s ending if, say, there was a character you were very attached which you didn’t want to die, and they might die in the last episode. Would you like to know how the show ends even if you have to face the truth of this character’s death?
In other words, truth is more about what you believe than what information you have (though obviously you need information to get at the truth). You can have different beliefs with the same information, so the question is more about whether you’re willing to accept the truth if it costs you something.
Without additional cost, I’d definitely prefer to know what happens even if my favorite character might die.
For a different show, I would not care. Whether or not I value the information depends on the show, or the domain… How much I’m willing to pay for information, and by extension the truth, depends a lot on the thing about which I’m learning.
To me it looks like the thing itself is what is important, and my desire to have accurate beliefs stems from caring about the thing. It’s not that I care about the accurate beliefs themselves, so much.
Even so, I don’t want false beliefs about anything. All domains are one.
I think you’re equivocating a bit between information and truth. For example in the TV example, you would pay to get the information of what the ending is. It would make more sense to talk about the truth of the show’s ending if, say, there was a character you were very attached which you didn’t want to die, and they might die in the last episode. Would you like to know how the show ends even if you have to face the truth of this character’s death?
In other words, truth is more about what you believe than what information you have (though obviously you need information to get at the truth). You can have different beliefs with the same information, so the question is more about whether you’re willing to accept the truth if it costs you something.
Thanks, that gets rid of most of my confusion.
Without additional cost, I’d definitely prefer to know what happens even if my favorite character might die.
For a different show, I would not care. Whether or not I value the information depends on the show, or the domain… How much I’m willing to pay for information, and by extension the truth, depends a lot on the thing about which I’m learning.
To me it looks like the thing itself is what is important, and my desire to have accurate beliefs stems from caring about the thing. It’s not that I care about the accurate beliefs themselves, so much.
Even so, I don’t want false beliefs about anything. All domains are one.