Some of the things mentioned on the doubles think page does apply here. As for talks about religion, the religions in question are unrelated. “Behaving as if god is real” is just a way of priming ones subconscious for a certain way of living. If one “has more than one god”, they might attempt to live by contradicting rules, which brings all sort of negative effects with it. Imagine a person trying to make a serious comedy movie—sticking to either genre would likely be better, not because one is better than the other, but because pure worldview have less conflict.
Anyway, many (about half) of the claims on the link you sent me are wrong. You can believe that the sky isn’t blue, and you don’t even need to lie to yourself (simply think like this: The color you see is only what is reflected, so the sky is actually every color except blue). You can unlearn things, and while happiness is often a result of ignorance, you could also interpret knowledge in way that it does not invoke unhappiness (acceptance is usually enough). That climbing takes more effort is unrelated—ignorance is not about avoiding effort. That there’s more to life than happiness is also unrelated—your interpretations of things decide how meaningful your life is. The link also seems to imply that biases are wrong—are they really? I think of them as locally right (and as increasingly wrong as you consider a larger scope life than your own local environment)
As a side note, even if rationality is optimal, our attempt to be rational might work so poorly that not trying can work out better. Rationalism is mostly about overcoming instinctual behaviour, but our instincts have been calibrated by darwinism, so they’re quite dangerous to overwrite. Many smart people hurt themselves in way that regular people don’t, especially when they’re being logical (Pascal’s wager, for instance). Ones model of the world easily becomes a shackle/self-imposed limitation
Some of the things mentioned on the doubles think page does apply here. As for talks about religion, the religions in question are unrelated. “Behaving as if god is real” is just a way of priming ones subconscious for a certain way of living. If one “has more than one god”, they might attempt to live by contradicting rules, which brings all sort of negative effects with it. Imagine a person trying to make a serious comedy movie—sticking to either genre would likely be better, not because one is better than the other, but because pure worldview have less conflict.
Anyway, many (about half) of the claims on the link you sent me are wrong. You can believe that the sky isn’t blue, and you don’t even need to lie to yourself (simply think like this: The color you see is only what is reflected, so the sky is actually every color except blue). You can unlearn things, and while happiness is often a result of ignorance, you could also interpret knowledge in way that it does not invoke unhappiness (acceptance is usually enough). That climbing takes more effort is unrelated—ignorance is not about avoiding effort. That there’s more to life than happiness is also unrelated—your interpretations of things decide how meaningful your life is. The link also seems to imply that biases are wrong—are they really? I think of them as locally right (and as increasingly wrong as you consider a larger scope life than your own local environment)
As a side note, even if rationality is optimal, our attempt to be rational might work so poorly that not trying can work out better. Rationalism is mostly about overcoming instinctual behaviour, but our instincts have been calibrated by darwinism, so they’re quite dangerous to overwrite. Many smart people hurt themselves in way that regular people don’t, especially when they’re being logical (Pascal’s wager, for instance). Ones model of the world easily becomes a shackle/self-imposed limitation