Self perception and self-deception are easy to confuse.
- 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.