Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Sometimes you can believe the right thing for the wrong reason.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
It's dangerous to encourage people to believe false things (or quietly fail to correct false beliefs) if they lead to correct conclusions though. Such strategies may work in the short term, but the world is chaotic, and generally a wrong-but-helpful belief today will become a wrong-and-harmful belief tomorrow. We learned this with the whole 2020-era attempt to try to convince people that covid is not airborne so that people would not hoard masks and leave them for emergency staff. It ended up leading to really harmful misconceptions that are still persisting.
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sika
@sika
Sometimes it's scary how easily false beliefs can spread, even if they lead to the right conclusion for the wrong reasons.
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