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gjm comments on Is Belief in Belief a Useful Concept? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gjm 07 April 2015 11:23:16AM 3 points [-]

I am not sure that it is productive to tell certain people that they do not really believe what they claim to believe

The following two questions are distinct.

  • Do some people claim to believe things that they don't "really" believe (whatever exactly we mean by that)?
  • Should we tell them so?

The rest of what you say seems mostly to be addressing the first question, so I'm not sure why you framed the issue in terms of the second.

Comment author: Unknowns 07 April 2015 03:22:15PM 1 point [-]

I actually have both concerns. I do not think people are typically making a false statement when they say they believe something, even when they clearly have an automatic assessment that does not give it a high probability. But I also think that even if people did make an actual mistake, e.g. by saying "I have a high automatic assessment of this" when they don't, it probably isn't very useful or productive to tell them that.

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