Vladimir_Golovin comments on Open Thread, June 2-15, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion
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Suppose the placebo effects exists; if you believe you will get better, then you will indeed get recover.
Unfortunately, it only works if you believe you will get better - and it could be hard to see why it'd be rational to believe that in the first place. Fortunately, rationalists have a solution to this problem.
We're scientific sorts of people, so we believe in the placebo effect - that is:
and we're also logical sort of people, so we believe lob's theorem
and hence we believe we'll be healed
and hence, by the placebo effect,
And we're healed!