Not sure I get your overall position. But I don’t believe all humans are delusional about the most important questions in their lives. See here for an analysis of pressures on people that can cause them to be insane on a topic. I think you can create inverse pressures in yourself, and you can also have no pressures and simply use curiosity and truth-seeking heuristics. It’s not magic to not be delusional. It just requires doing the same sorts of cognition you use to fix a kitchen sink.
Admittedly, I got a bit lost writing the comment. What I should’ve wrote was: “not being delusional is either easy or hard.”
If it’s easy, you should be able to convince them to stop being delusional, since it’s their rational self interest.
If it’s hard, you should be able to show them how hard and extremely insidious it is, and how one cannot expect oneself to succeed, so one should be far more uncertain/concerned about delusion.
Not sure I get your overall position. But I don’t believe all humans are delusional about the most important questions in their lives. See here for an analysis of pressures on people that can cause them to be insane on a topic. I think you can create inverse pressures in yourself, and you can also have no pressures and simply use curiosity and truth-seeking heuristics. It’s not magic to not be delusional. It just requires doing the same sorts of cognition you use to fix a kitchen sink.
Admittedly, I got a bit lost writing the comment. What I should’ve wrote was: “not being delusional is either easy or hard.”
If it’s easy, you should be able to convince them to stop being delusional, since it’s their rational self interest.
If it’s hard, you should be able to show them how hard and extremely insidious it is, and how one cannot expect oneself to succeed, so one should be far more uncertain/concerned about delusion.