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Could more people please share data on how one of the above techniques, or some other technique for reducing consistency pressures, has actually helped their rationality? Or how such a technique has harmed their rationality, or has just been a waste of time? The techniques list is just a list of guesses, and while I'm planning on using more of them than I have been using... it would be nice to have even anecdotal data on what helps and doesn't help.
For example, many of you write anonymously; what effects do you notice from doing so?
Or what thoughts do you have regarding Michael Vassar's suggestion to practice lying?
I've noticed that when I'm anonymous, I avoid expressing most of the opinions I'd avoid expressing when I'm not anonymous, but because they might be seen to reflect badly on my other beliefs rather than on me. I should probably try a throwaway account, but among other things I'd still worry about how it might reflect on the community of rationalists in general.
I haven't noticed consistency pressures as such ever affecting me much, but I should watch more closely and the list of suggested solutions looks great.
Out of the question. Lying is illegal where I live.
Where is lying illegal? That sounds so terribly illiberal that I'd like to avoid even visiting there, if possible.
I think he was lying.