Truth-Seeking Modes

This post argues that the healthiest way to relate to a truth-seeking impulse is as an infinite game, where the aim is to keep playing rather than reach a definitive "winning" answer. The author says trivial truths may have win conditions, but interesting truths cannot be won and can only be healthily engaged because they keep producing new salient novelty. A healthy relationship to a suspected truth is described as a dynamic equilibrium among three forces, with every unbalanced configuration counted as unhealthy. The author ties this to an earlier idea from a newsletter on cozytech, "individually delusional, collectively rational," and suggests the arrangement shows a less deluded disposition emerging from more deluded parts, which the author calls a reliable gestalt subjectivity built from unreliable component subjectivities.