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-Title: Teleology
-Date: 2021-01-01
-Category: other
-Tags: epistemology
-Status: draft
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-"I mean, if that explanation actually makes you feel happier, then fine."
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-"Feeling happier isn't what explanations are for. Explanations are for [predicting our observations](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/a7n8GdKiAZRX86T5A/making-beliefs-pay-rent-in-anticipated-experiences).
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-"Emotions, too, are functional: happiness measures whether things in your life are going well or going poorly, but does not _constitute_ things going well, much as a high reading on a thermometer measures heat as 'temperature' without itself _being_ heat.
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-"If the explanation that predicts your observations makes you unhappy, then the explanation—and the unhappiness—are functioning as designed."