[crawfordcomeaux]

From studying ANNs, I've reconceived of how I view myself from a programmatic perspective. I have used the resulting models to change myself in useful ways. If they're not perfectly accurate, they may still be accurate enough to be useful.

The trick, to me, is to avoid falling into the trap of thinking imperfect models aren't useful. Then the accuracy matters less.

An example of a useful intuition was realizing choosing to believe something is a skill and I can choose to believe the opposite of anxious thoughts to safely defuse anxiety as long as I'm meeting my needs.

I know people who've been in therapy for a long time before learning that one, so I'm gonna keep using ANNs as a guide for self-hacking. It's way too useful to me.

[skohan]

It's fine and good that ANNs can serve as a metaphor for your own mind. That's something very different than saying they're going to be useful in unraveling the scientific mysteries of the brain.