Viliam_Bur comments on Epistemic Luck - Less Wrong
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This is the first of Lifton's eight criteria for thought reform -- one is systematically exposed only to one side of evidence, and isolated from the other side of evidence.
To make this brainwashing more effcient, there are additional techniques:
Live among people who will make you feel ashamed for not believing in X. These people should love you as a person, but hate any non-X-ness. Expose your doubts about X in front of the group -- it will help them understand and modify your mind processes.
Develop a group-specific jargon -- if you make your pro-X arguments using words that an outsider does not understand, then the outsider cannot refute these arguments.
If you ever experience or remember something that disagrees with X, be a good Bayesian and remember that with probability at least epsilon, your experience or memory is wrong. On the other hand, assing prior probability 1 to X. This way, whatever evidence you have, it is perfectly rational to believe in X.