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Dragonsphere Report
Infohazards are not hazardous because they are accepted
At root, all allocation of scarce resources rests on the elevation of one subjective preference above another. It is therefore evolutionarily advantageous to reject other people's preferences as ungrounded in truth. This is the core of the disjunction between the adaptivity of belief and its truth.
Lots of fun things at the fringes of this like developing literal psychotic disorders if you sit with disadvantageous truths for too long, as well as the evolutionary logic of exclusion, banishment, social murder, and a lot of literal murder.
Luckily, nature gave men metaphysics so they have a reflexive way to reject truth. Beliefs are literally homeostasis of the brain for the average person. Some people have badly functioning homeostasis mechanisms and have to carefully navigate the scylla and charybdis of truth and disintegration.
Thus ends another Dragonsphere Report