It's helpful - very helpful - to have a self-image which says that you are the sort of person who confronts harsh truth.
This doesn't feel right because it strikes me as making you more vulnerable to overestimate the probability of "harsh truths" being true.
Probably not enough to overcome the confirmation bias.
Today's post, Something to Protect was originally published on 30 January 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
Discuss the post here (rather than in the comments to the original post).
This post is part of the Rerunning the Sequences series, where we'll be going through Eliezer Yudkowsky's old posts in order so that people who are interested can (re-)read and discuss them. The previous post was Trust in Bayes, and you can use the sequence_reruns tag or rss feed to follow the rest of the series.
Sequence reruns are a community-driven effort. You can participate by re-reading the sequence post, discussing it here, posting the next day's sequence reruns post, or summarizing forthcoming articles on the wiki. Go here for more details, or to have meta discussions about the Rerunning the Sequences series.