Suppose the placebo effects exists; if you believe you will get better, then you will indeed get recover.
B(h) → h
Unfortunately, it only works if you believe you will get better—and it could be hard to see why it’d be rational to believe that in the first place. Fortunately, rationalists have a solution to this problem.
We’re scientific sorts of people, so we believe in the placebo effect—that is:
B( B(h) → h )
and we’re also logical sort of people, so we believe lob’s theorem
Suppose the placebo effects exists; if you believe you will get better, then you will indeed get recover.
Unfortunately, it only works if you believe you will get better—and it could be hard to see why it’d be rational to believe that in the first place. Fortunately, rationalists have a solution to this problem.
We’re scientific sorts of people, so we believe in the placebo effect—that is:
and we’re also logical sort of people, so we believe lob’s theorem
and hence we believe we’ll be healed
and hence, by the placebo effect,
And we’re healed!