Why We Lie To Ourselves: Self-Deception Explained

People lie to themselves. We all lie to ourselves. You're. There's a great quote from Patrick's book, which is the first time your brain ever lied to you was the second time you opened your eyes. And in particular this a lot with people that lie to themselves about adopting healthy habits where they say, I'm going to do it tomorrow. That's a very common lie. Right. And so there's that belief that you'll tell yourself about yourself and is it ground truth or not? And so I'm now thinking about the use case where how does our SDK know in a software interaction or with an agent, how can it discern that this is a false belief that this user has told themselves? But now to restate sort of the question, it would be, are there use cases out there where a software system could use our product to learn more about the user? But there is no behavior loop to close out evidencing of beliefs and therefore that like, corner case. I just talked about personality tests. I take the Myers Briggs test and there's no agent or human I'm talking to or there's no like, oh, I can confirm this. Right. So, yeah, so that there's no behavior involved. And then I take those hypotheses about whether I'm extroverted. And the next, next time I'm in a social situation, I'm testing that, say like, yeah, you know, it might even be helping to reinforce what the test came out with, which was that I'm an introvert, by the way, because this thing is 100% right and it knows me so well that I'm actually going to behave in the way that it says that I should behave because it's so right. So anyway, I put it as a piece of evidence as opposed to an observational experiential model or behavioral model.