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Robin Hanson's avatar

Pretty much everyone can be wrong about pretty much anything.

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Overcoming Bias Commenter's avatar

Thanks Robin, I now see how the situation I describe is fully accommodated by your analysis, and that there is an important sense in which our consistent choices always reflect our conception of what is good. Would you agree though that people even at their most deliberate can be wrong about the good (e.g. the millions who chose to live in dense unsanitary cities during the Plague despite the fact that this did not foster their, or anyone else's, long term well being)?

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