If I'm understanding your comment correctly, you're suggesting that the threshold between "belief in belief" and "failure to internalize" in this case has to do with the willingness to make predictions/bets -- e.g., if I'm willing to give someone a large sum of money in exchange for a reliable commitment to give me a much much larger sum of money after I am restored from cryonic suspension, then we say I have a "genuine belief" in cryonics and not a mere "belief in belief", although I might still failed to have an "internalized belief"... is that right?
Sounds right.
Cool.
Having clarified that: can you say more about why the distinction (between belief in belief in cryonics, and genuine but non-internalized belief in cryonics) is important in this context? That is... why do you bring it up?
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