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by naasking 939 days ago
> Do you think any rhetoric could ever persuade you to you adopt the opposite general worldview of what you currently have?

Yes, it's possible.

> The reason for this is not because I'm obstinate, but because my worldview is not formed on persuasion, but on lived experience.

Lived experience is interpreted through framing. Rhetoric can change the framing through which we interpret the world through practice. This is why CBT works. Superhuman CBT could arguably work even better.

Remember that if "superhuman X" is possible, then our intuitions formed from "human X" are not necessarily valid. For sure any X still has a limit, but our intuitions about where that limit is may not be correct.