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Latest revision as of 22:14, 26 March 2011
Self-deception is a state of preserving a wrong belief, often facilitated by denying or rationalizing away the relevance, significance, or importance of opposing evidence and logical arguments. Beliefs supported by self-deception are often chosen for reasons other than how closely those beliefs approximate truth.
Deceiving yourself is harder than it seems. What looks like a successively adopted false belief may actually be just a belief in false belief.
Blog posts
Sequence by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Part of How To Actually Change Your Mind sequence
- No, Really, I've Deceived Myself
- Belief in Self Deception
- Moore's Paradox
- Don't Believe You'll Self-Deceive
- Striving to Accept
Other resources
- Robin Hanson (2009). "Enhancing Our Truth Orientation". in Larissa Behrendt, Nick Bostrom. Human Enhancement. Oxford University Press. (PDF)
See also
- Anti-epistemology, Belief in belief
- Semantic stopsign, Compartmentalization, Motivated skepticism
- Improper belief, Truth
