Self perception and self-deception are easy to confuse.

· Bits and Bobs 6/23/25
  • Self perception and self-deception are easy to confuse.
    • Therapy makes progress based on your ability to report what actually happened in your life.
      • Your memories are pre-narrativized.
        • You're the main character in your memories, so memories are stored with you being noble and correct.
      • That's one reason couples counseling is so effective: two different motivated views of the same scenario, which makes it easier to triangulate the ground truth..
      • Perhaps Granola style transcripts could help ground truth?
        • But only if everyone's actions didn't change given they were being recorded.
        • Do we try to impress ChatGPT?
          • Before the memories feature I didn't care.
          • But now I do.
    • An existential risk: human addiction to "therapy" that feels like growth but actually isn't.

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