optimizing your political statements and beliefs by their social usefulness
Ideas constructed in this manner are not “beliefs” in the sense that they are not evidence about the world that is useful for navigating it. It’s deception/self-deception to pass such ideas for beliefs, and it might be hard for them to turn into actual anticipation-controlling beliefs, so perhaps it’s somewhat misleading to call them “beliefs”.
Ideas constructed in this manner are not “beliefs” in the sense that they are not evidence about the world that is useful for navigating it. It’s deception/self-deception to pass such ideas for beliefs, and it might be hard for them to turn into actual anticipation-controlling beliefs, so perhaps it’s somewhat misleading to call them “beliefs”.