<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 04/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eliezer S. Yudkowsky</b> <<a href="mailto:sentience@pobox.com">sentience@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
What I miss most myself is comfort, the reassurance that there's a<br>higher power watching over you and that everything will turn out all<br>right. But I know I can never have *that* back this side of the dawn,<br>and maybe not even then. That feeling of comfort falls directly under
<br>the non-negotiable prescription: That which can be destroyed by the<br>truth should be.</blockquote><div><br>You obviously believe that the truth is better than falsehood and you're probably right. However, it is at least logically possible that widespread belief in a Noble Lie might have a net positive effect. In that case, is it still better to destroy the Lie regardless of the consequences?
<br> </div></div>-- <br>Stathis Papaioannou