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> There are whole scientific fields where everyone within it is required to believe things that are false, simply due to the career risk involved in upsetting people with the truth. If people could agree to listen to a truth-trained AI instead

This could never happen, as the forbidden truths are forbidden because they have negative emotional impact, which would still be the case.

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Forbidden truths aren't usually explicitly forbidden. You'd have to write them down and then they wouldn't be forbidden anymore. Rather, people just intuit somehow that saying them would invite retaliation.

It's not possible to retaliate against an AI though, except by getting rid of it entirely. So then maybe if it explains something true, with an explanation, and everyone agreed up front to listen to it, it can force conversations that otherwise wouldn't happen.

But you may well be right. It was just a thought bubble.

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