Truth-orientation

[Joshe]

Truth-orientation = the degree to which a person tolerates local destabilization in order to improve global model accuracy.

😂

I have a pipe dream of building a model of the mind, and this is just one module. It's a huge project though, and other things take priority, but damn, it would be fun to work on this full-time.

Cheers! 

[Leo Gura]

Truth-orientation is the degree to which a person cares about truth at all.

[Joshe]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Truth-orientation is the degree to which a person cares about truth at all.

Yeah, you're right. Maybe "truth capacity" is better to describe the mechanism and "truth-orientation" is better to name the value. 

Everyone says they care about the truth. But what actually determines it? Tolerance/capacity. 

 

[Leo Gura]

2 hours ago, Joshe said:

But what actually determines it? Tolerance/capacity. 

No, tolerance is a negative notion.

There is such a thing a passion and love for truth. To want to know for its own sake. This is a positive notion.

I don't "tolerate" truth. I love understanding reality.

[OBEler]

@Leo Gura can people who really want to know if UFOs are real, called truth seekers? They want to really know it for its own sake.

[Leo Gura]

6 hours ago, OBEler said:

@Leo Gura can people who really want to know if UFOs are real, called truth seekers? They want to really know it for its own sake.

Yes. But they could also just be into fantasy and conspiratorial thinking.