gworley comments on Are you crazy? - Less Wrong
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This question goes away if you taboo "sane". If you're really asking "are my deeply-held beliefs about my other deeply-held beliefs true", then you start to apply some of the techniques being explored here.
And still, you should accept that no bayesean estimate (including meta-beliefs) can rationally be 0 or 1, so there's always the chance that you're completely stuck in a fantasy.
If I taboo "sane" in the sense used above, I get: typical human reasoning.