pjeby comments on Instrumental vs. Epistemic -- A Bardic Perspective - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pjeby 25 April 2009 08:20:26PM 4 points [-]

Maybe we could call it "self-pretending" instead of "self-deception".

In NLP, it's called "modeling". Other schools speak of "acting as-if".

The key distinction between these concepts and the common conception of self-deception, pretending, or acting, is that when ou are acting-as-if, you are not allowed to signal that you're only pretending.

That is, you must suspend your own disbelief, for others to suspend theirs.