I’m reading through Rationality from AI to Zombies again and just finished the section on Fake Beliefs. I understand the ideas and now I’m trying to ask myself whether the ideas are useful.
To me, the biggest reason for them being useful is if I myself have some fake beliefs, it’d be good to identify and get rid of them. I don’t think I do though.
Another reason why they might be useful is to identify them in others and better understand what is going on. Actually, this doesn’t seem particularly useful, but it at least is somewhat interesting/satisfying. Anyway, I’m having trouble thinking of good examples of fake beliefs in others. The examples in the blog posts seem pretty contrived and perhaps uncharitable to what is actually going on in their heads.
So, to wrap this question up, I am most interested in hearing about examples of fake beliefs that rationalists might be prone to having, but I am also interested in hearing any other examples.
[Question] What are some good examples of fake beliefs?
I’m reading through Rationality from AI to Zombies again and just finished the section on Fake Beliefs. I understand the ideas and now I’m trying to ask myself whether the ideas are useful.
To me, the biggest reason for them being useful is if I myself have some fake beliefs, it’d be good to identify and get rid of them. I don’t think I do though.
Another reason why they might be useful is to identify them in others and better understand what is going on. Actually, this doesn’t seem particularly useful, but it at least is somewhat interesting/satisfying. Anyway, I’m having trouble thinking of good examples of fake beliefs in others. The examples in the blog posts seem pretty contrived and perhaps uncharitable to what is actually going on in their heads.
So, to wrap this question up, I am most interested in hearing about examples of fake beliefs that rationalists might be prone to having, but I am also interested in hearing any other examples.