Peacewise comments on Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased) - Less Wrong
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We routinely generate a swath of irrational beliefs, spawned e.g. by deep seated biological biases such as "That girl I just met, she is so special, I will love and cherish her forever and ever." You notice a belief like that makes you happy, then you only do a cursory examination of some worst case boundaries. If you then judge the belief to be mostly harmless, you just do not look at it any closer.
Changing a belief consciously means reflecting on it. Stop the reflecting, and you stop the updating (and keep the happiness).