I’d be worried that “identifying as having a flaw” can begin as something merely aesthetic at first and end up deeply warping your lens of the world in the end. If “is known as the pessimist” or “is known as the optimist” becomes something you start wanting to live up to, I feel like you could do real damage to your empirical rationality. I guard myself against “aesthetic flaws” personally because they don’t seem to be worth the amount of course-correcting I’d have to engage in just to keep an accurate-enough view of the world. I added a footnote though, thanks for the feedback.
I’d be worried that “identifying as having a flaw” can begin as something merely aesthetic at first and end up deeply warping your lens of the world in the end. If “is known as the pessimist” or “is known as the optimist” becomes something you start wanting to live up to, I feel like you could do real damage to your empirical rationality. I guard myself against “aesthetic flaws” personally because they don’t seem to be worth the amount of course-correcting I’d have to engage in just to keep an accurate-enough view of the world. I added a footnote though, thanks for the feedback.
Yeah, I agree with those points.