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No, Really, I've Deceived Myself — LessWrong

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I recently spoke with a person who... it's difficult to describe. Nominally, she was an Orthodox Jew. She was also highly intelligent, conversant w…

x No, Really, I've Deceived Myself — LessWrong Against Doublethink Self-Deception Rationality Frontpage 143 No, Really, I've Deceived Myself by Eliezer Yudkowsky 4th Mar 2009 2 min read 90 143 I recently spoke with a person who... it's difficult to describe. Nominally, she was an Orthodox Jew. She was also highly intelligent, conversant with some of the archaeological evidence against her religion, and the shallow standard arguments against religion that religious people know about. For example, she knew that Mordecai, Esther, Haman, and Vashti were not in the Persian historical records, but t

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