It’s difficult for my brain to parse a sentence with ‘alieve’. I guess I’ve watched too many commercials, and my brain associates ‘Aleve’ with ‘relieve’, which has an approximately opposite meaning. I have to mentally substitute ‘alieve’ with something like ‘actually believe’ in order to comfortably read the sentence.
I cannot find alieve in any of the dictionaries I have checked. Is it a Lesswrongism? If so, I strongly recommend dropping it, as suggested by Jordan below, as English-speakers parse it as meaning the opposite of how you appear to be using it, and there is no reference for them to turn to.
EDIT: Ah, now it links to alief, which is better. I’m still leery of the word, though, since googling it produces nothing, wikitionary produces nothing, wikipedia links to a town in Texas, and it sounds like its opposite.
It’s a rather recent neologism) (not from LW though). I’m not fanatically attached to the word, but it’s pretty important to distinguish beliefs held by System-1 and System-2. Trying to change your beliefs (as analytic evidence processing with explicit correction) using the methods in the post would be awful doublethink. Trying to change your beliefs (as gut feelings you feel impulses to act on, or aliefs) to match the former kind of belief is just dandy.
I think the link to aliefs should go on the first mention. You might also want to remove the extra title at the top and eliminate the extra spacing between paragraphs (I’ve had trouble with this; the post is not updated right way when you make a change to the source, I think you have to wait a few minutes for it to change).
You mean alieve, not believe. This is a technique to alieve what you already believe.
It’s difficult for my brain to parse a sentence with ‘alieve’. I guess I’ve watched too many commercials, and my brain associates ‘Aleve’ with ‘relieve’, which has an approximately opposite meaning. I have to mentally substitute ‘alieve’ with something like ‘actually believe’ in order to comfortably read the sentence.
I cannot find alieve in any of the dictionaries I have checked. Is it a Lesswrongism? If so, I strongly recommend dropping it, as suggested by Jordan below, as English-speakers parse it as meaning the opposite of how you appear to be using it, and there is no reference for them to turn to.
EDIT: Ah, now it links to alief, which is better. I’m still leery of the word, though, since googling it produces nothing, wikitionary produces nothing, wikipedia links to a town in Texas, and it sounds like its opposite.
It might be more readable if aleive was replaced with something like ‘subconsciously believe’ or ‘have emotional reaction that...’
It’s a rather recent neologism) (not from LW though). I’m not fanatically attached to the word, but it’s pretty important to distinguish beliefs held by System-1 and System-2. Trying to change your beliefs (as analytic evidence processing with explicit correction) using the methods in the post would be awful doublethink. Trying to change your beliefs (as gut feelings you feel impulses to act on, or aliefs) to match the former kind of belief is just dandy.
Fixed.
I think the link to aliefs should go on the first mention. You might also want to remove the extra title at the top and eliminate the extra spacing between paragraphs (I’ve had trouble with this; the post is not updated right way when you make a change to the source, I think you have to wait a few minutes for it to change).