Well, don’t rid yourself of beliefs that actually work. You’re arguing against having beliefs for the wrong reasons, and against having beliefs that won’t update when circumstances or knowledge changes. I fully agree with both of those motivations, but the advice should be find better grounding for your beliefs”, rather than “unconditionally dispose of those beliefs.”
It’s possible that Bitcoin will be the only survivor of the massive coin and scam expansion that’s inevitable as a new thing becomes popular. The root belief that starting new coins hurts everyone except the founders/scammers who get in early could be correct. And even people who believe this for the wrong reasons (they’ve heard it so often that they repeat it without thinking through the mechanisms) are correct in their behavior. Those people can improve their outcomes with some research and modeling that adds nuance and exceptions to that creed, but not by throwing it out entirely and putting lots of money into every new hotness that comes along.
Well, don’t rid yourself of beliefs that actually work. You’re arguing against having beliefs for the wrong reasons, and against having beliefs that won’t update when circumstances or knowledge changes. I fully agree with both of those motivations, but the advice should be find better grounding for your beliefs”, rather than “unconditionally dispose of those beliefs.”
It’s possible that Bitcoin will be the only survivor of the massive coin and scam expansion that’s inevitable as a new thing becomes popular. The root belief that starting new coins hurts everyone except the founders/scammers who get in early could be correct. And even people who believe this for the wrong reasons (they’ve heard it so often that they repeat it without thinking through the mechanisms) are correct in their behavior. Those people can improve their outcomes with some research and modeling that adds nuance and exceptions to that creed, but not by throwing it out entirely and putting lots of money into every new hotness that comes along.