What is truth? Rather than get into philosophical debates about this one, let’s use a reasonable working definition that by truth we mean “accurate predictions about our experiences
I would have though that definition was less impacted by the PotC than most. You can check directly that predictive theory is predicting, do you don’t need apriori correctness.
This means that you’re going to need some skill at reasoning about non-truth-seeking agents. But the human brain is kinda bad at thinking about minds not like our own. A highly effective way to overcome this is to build cognitive empathy for others by learning to think like them (not just to model them from the outside, but to run a simulated thought process as if you were them). But this requires an ability to prioritize something other than truth because the agent being simulated doesn’t and because our brains can’t actually firewall off these simulations cleanly from “our” “real” thoughts (cf. worries about dark arts, which we’ll discuss shortly
If you’re capable of firewalling off your model of non-truth-seekers, I don’t see a further problem. You don’t have to stop prioritising truth in order to model non-truth-seekers because prioritising truth requires modelling non-truth-seekers as non-truth-seekers.
I would have though that definition was less impacted by the PotC than most. You can check directly that predictive theory is predicting, do you don’t need apriori correctness.
If you’re capable of firewalling off your model of non-truth-seekers, I don’t see a further problem. You don’t have to stop prioritising truth in order to model non-truth-seekers because prioritising truth requires modelling non-truth-seekers as non-truth-seekers.