It seems like you’ve already worked out the answer with good epistemology (you must act dominant) but you can’t apply it unless you put yourself in a less epistemically correct state.
But were you in an epistemically correct state to begin with? Your thoughts were. Your executing adaptations weren’t; they were shaped around an assumed bone-wielding alpha male.
Isn’t what you’ve done really more like “moving the untruth around”?
It seems like you’ve already worked out the answer with good epistemology (you must act dominant) but you can’t apply it unless you put yourself in a less epistemically correct state.
But were you in an epistemically correct state to begin with? Your thoughts were. Your executing adaptations weren’t; they were shaped around an assumed bone-wielding alpha male.
Isn’t what you’ve done really more like “moving the untruth around”?