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I cannot find alieve in any of the dictionaries I have checked. Is it a Lesswrongism? If so, I strongly recommend dropping it, as suggested by Jordan below, as English-speakers parse it as meaning the opposite of how you appear to be using it, and there is no reference for them to turn to.
EDIT: Ah, now it links to alief, which is better. I'm still leery of the word, though, since googling it produces nothing, wikitionary produces nothing, wikipedia links to a town in Texas, and it sounds like its opposite.
It might be more readable if aleive was replaced with something like 'subconsciously believe' or 'have emotional reaction that...'
It's a rather recent neologism (not from LW though). I'm not fanatically attached to the word, but it's pretty important to distinguish beliefs held by System-1 and System-2. Trying to change your beliefs (as analytic evidence processing with explicit correction) using the methods in the post would be awful doublethink. Trying to change your beliefs (as gut feelings you feel impulses to act on, or aliefs) to match the former kind of belief is just dandy.