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Comment author: ChristianKl 06 April 2015 12:06:14PM 1 point [-]

Doesn't dark arts refer to manipulating other people using cognitive biases, and so can't be used to affect yourself?

Dark arts generally refers to techniques, where there are tradeoffs.

Holding false beliefs to motivate yourself would be seen by many people as dark arts even when it's just targeted at yourself.

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