#rationality #epistemology # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Belief > You will think me difficult, but I do not have any need for belief. > I subscribe only to The Truth. And this Truth comes by way of a nuanced and uncompromising exploration of my experiences. I have no interest in resorting to "opinion" or "belief." Either I know or I do not know. If I know, I know. If I do not know, I explore and I experiment until I know. > ~ [[Kapil Gupta - Direct Truth - Uncompromising - Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life|Kapil Gupta]] ![[DALL·E 2022-06-18 19.35.53 - The paradoxal doublethinking happening within man mind, surrealist, by Escher.png]] >You are never entitled to your opinion. Ever! You are not even > entitled to "I don't know." You are entitled to your desires, and > sometimes to your choices. You might own a choice, and if you > can choose your preferences, you may have the right to do so. But > your beliefs are not about you; beliefs are about the world. Your > beliefs should be your best available estimate of the way things > are; anything else is a lie. > ~ [[Robin Hanson]] ![[DALL·E 2022-06-19 14.07.12 - The paradoxal doublethinking happening within man mind, surrealist, by Escher.png]] >False beliefs can be difficult to eliminate, and how false beliefs combined with our more primitive emotions are a threat to our long-term survival. >~ [[Jeff Hawkins]] ## [[mullikine]] ![[Screenshot 2022-06-19 at 09.26.35.png]] https://mullikine.github.io/posts/a-model-of-morality/