Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky

Re:Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky by emodendroket on Thursday January 19, 2017 @04:20PM (#13439600)

So your position is that we should just all believe outright falsehoods if it's "useful?"

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Re:Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky by gergoerdi on Sunday January 22, 2017 @09:06PM (#13459139)

Of course? If you want to recover 'not believing outright falsehoods' from that, just assign a very high value to 'truth' in your utility function.

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Re:Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky by __derek__ on Friday January 20, 2017 @01:03AM (#13441967)

To be ever so slightly pedantic: regardless of whether we should, we do. We're afflicted with a slew of cognitive biases.

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Re:Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky by emodendroket on Friday January 20, 2017 @09:06AM (#13443806)

I don't really see that as relevant to this particular discussion.

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