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In order to cultivate an environment where the truth wins out in the end, you have to be biased against falsehoods

Posted by dredmorbius
Tags: facebook, dead link, media, epistemology, truth, bias, falsehoods
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I want to use this now famous exchange to make some basic points about truth,...
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    zoec
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    For one thing, we tend to devote more undue attention to falsehoods. Even paying equal attention to T and F is hard.

    For one thing, we tend to devote more undue attention to falsehoods. Even paying equal attention to T and F is hard.

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    1. delicious_grownups
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      Right? Why should I have to explain to some asshole over and over again why uranium one is a falsehood? It's a waste of my energy and resources

      Right? Why should I have to explain to some asshole over and over again why uranium one is a falsehood? It's a waste of my energy and resources

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