When try really doing this, my willpower runs out after just a few seconds and before anything has time to actually happen, and then I spend a long time sulking over how worthless I am for not being a proper rationalist and/or being BSOD’d from the paradox of not believing what I know is rational to believe.
I don’t really know. When I search my mind right now for instances of “hard questions” it only turns up instances of “questions where more evidence is needed” and “hard math problems”, and no actual instances of “hard question”s, so I can’t get any clear idea of what a hard question would look like.
When try really doing this, my willpower runs out after just a few seconds and before anything has time to actually happen, and then I spend a long time sulking over how worthless I am for not being a proper rationalist and/or being BSOD’d from the paradox of not believing what I know is rational to believe.
Are you instinctively also only choosing questions with easy answers? Or are your doubts raising a different kind of question?
I don’t really know. When I search my mind right now for instances of “hard questions” it only turns up instances of “questions where more evidence is needed” and “hard math problems”, and no actual instances of “hard question”s, so I can’t get any clear idea of what a hard question would look like.