Belief in Self-Deception — LessWrong

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I spoke yesterday of my conversation with a nominally Orthodox Jewish woman who vigorously defended the assertion that she believed in God, while see…

x Belief in Self-Deception — LessWrong Against Doublethink Anticipated Experiences Litany of Tarski Self-Deception Rationality Frontpage 114 Belief in Self-Deception by Eliezer Yudkowsky 5th Mar 2009 5 min read 114 114 I spoke yesterday of my conversation with a nominally Orthodox Jewish woman who vigorously defended the assertion that she believed in God, while seeming not to actually believe in God at all. While I was questioning her about the benefits that she thought came from believing in God, I introduced the Litany of Tarski —which is actually an infinite family of litanies, a specific

Belief in Self-Deception — LessWrong

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