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b_b · 2989 days ago · link · · parent · post: Let Them Eat Facts: Why Fact Checking Is Mostly Useless In Convincing Voters
Venkatesh Rao of Ribbon Farm likes to say that the goal of rationality isn't truth but order. That is, that we use rationality as a crutch to understand the world internally, no matter what the objective truth might be externally.