Well, in practice it seems that the answer is to fix the leak- especially since I don’t know how to make myself believe something that I know to be false.
However, in the most inconvenient world, my self honesty has a finite price. I care about self honesty and I care about money. I don’t feel like computing the price given that I’m not actually facing this condition.
These situations where “false beliefs win” come up often in hypotheticals because it forces you to chose between two things (truth and success) which correlate well enough to be confused with each other. Once you recognize this and have a good enough idea of the balance that you aren’t chasing the wrong thing, I don’t think there’s anything to gain.
Does anyone have an example where common strategies utilizing false beliefs predictably do better than common strategies utilizing true beliefs? Are there any real world examples where the best thing you can do is still to believe a lie?
Well, in practice it seems that the answer is to fix the leak- especially since I don’t know how to make myself believe something that I know to be false.
However, in the most inconvenient world, my self honesty has a finite price. I care about self honesty and I care about money. I don’t feel like computing the price given that I’m not actually facing this condition.
These situations where “false beliefs win” come up often in hypotheticals because it forces you to chose between two things (truth and success) which correlate well enough to be confused with each other. Once you recognize this and have a good enough idea of the balance that you aren’t chasing the wrong thing, I don’t think there’s anything to gain.
Does anyone have an example where common strategies utilizing false beliefs predictably do better than common strategies utilizing true beliefs? Are there any real world examples where the best thing you can do is still to believe a lie?
Placebos.