I suspect therapy methods work better the more you believe in and trust them. This means there's something harmful about studying how well therapy methods work and publicizing that information, which is that they can cause the methods to work less well.
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This gets at a common confusion about what it means to "believe" "true" things.
@Meaningness has written some about this, and I'm excited that he's writing more: https://meaningness.com/eggplant/opening …pic.twitter.com/yJj5Sy2f6E
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Feeling trust and hope in a therapy method is not a purely mental phenomenon, separated from the world. It has very real physical effects in your body; your autonomic nervous system is doing stuff, your muscle tension is doing stuff, etc.
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And it seems like you are talking about the usefulness of believing things (true or false). Were you intending to take the meta-rationalist stance as described in that meaningness screenshot?
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Something like it. I agree with David that there's something iffy about the rationalist ontology around "truth" and "belief" and that a more meta-rationalist ontology has more room for good stuff.
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