[...] Groovies believe that a human mind, or a community made up of human minds, is a giant monster that feeds on truth and chokes on confusion. Perhaps if you’re really clever and really lucky, you can make it choke in exactly the right way. But mostly you aren’t.
We believe that promoting less than maximally accurate beliefs is an act of sabotage. Don’t do it to anyone unless you’d also slash their tires, because they’re Nazis or whatever. Specifically, don’t do it to yourself.
(Sadly, we may have to count everyday social interactions as a partial exception.)
One of our mottoes is “if we believe absurdities we shall commit atrocities”. Another is “life is demanding without understanding”. False beliefs hurt both the believer and others. [...]
The quotation is from Black Belt Bayesian: