Very powerful reasoning. I would add that a relevant form of self-deception that should be investigated in this framework is religious faith, given its place as as foundational to societies worldwide.
Religious faith seems like an optimal form of solution to hostile telepaths problem, in certain contexts it seems like a mixture of the three solutions you outlined. (Newcomblike self-deception, Having power and Occlumency)
Religious faith seems to provide psychological power through feelings of absolute certainty and over-confidence that religious people experience. At the same time, the conversion to religions is correlated with overcoming PTSD and addiction (step 2 of the 12 steps program: “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”)
I think there is an underlying problem of concept hierarchy which may precede self deception. Maybe we are able to hide concepts and thoughts while they occupy a peripheral part of the mind, this could be also linked to a continuous formulation of the newcomb-like problem in decision theory. I am not sure how this unfolds, will be trying to explore that in the weeks to come.
Very powerful reasoning. I would add that a relevant form of self-deception that should be investigated in this framework is religious faith, given its place as as foundational to societies worldwide.
Religious faith seems like an optimal form of solution to hostile telepaths problem, in certain contexts it seems like a mixture of the three solutions you outlined. (Newcomblike self-deception, Having power and Occlumency)
Religious faith seems to provide psychological power through feelings of absolute certainty and over-confidence that religious people experience. At the same time, the conversion to religions is correlated with overcoming PTSD and addiction (step 2 of the 12 steps program: “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”)
I think there is an underlying problem of concept hierarchy which may precede self deception. Maybe we are able to hide concepts and thoughts while they occupy a peripheral part of the mind, this could be also linked to a continuous formulation of the newcomb-like problem in decision theory. I am not sure how this unfolds, will be trying to explore that in the weeks to come.
Thank you for sharing!