(From the top of my head, maybe I’ll change my mind if I think about it more or see a good point.) What can be destroyed by truth, shall be. Emotions and beliefs are entangled. If you don’t think about how high p(doom) actually is because on the back of your mind you don’t want to be sad, you end up working on things that don’t reduce p(doom).
As long as you know the truth, emotions are only important depending on your terminal values. But many feelings are related to what we end up believing, motivated cognition, etc.
(From the top of my head, maybe I’ll change my mind if I think about it more or see a good point.) What can be destroyed by truth, shall be. Emotions and beliefs are entangled. If you don’t think about how high p(doom) actually is because on the back of your mind you don’t want to be sad, you end up working on things that don’t reduce p(doom).
As long as you know the truth, emotions are only important depending on your terminal values. But many feelings are related to what we end up believing, motivated cognition, etc.