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Comment author: AspiringRationalist 21 June 2012 06:20:57AM 0 points [-]

You should also examine the costs of each method of achieving the intermediate effects. Even if there are other ways available, maybe self-deception is the easiest, and the costs of that particular incorrect belief are small.