Comment by Zeke on The Lens That Sees Its Flaws · 2011-09-28T19:58:17.205Z · LW · GW

If you can see this - if you can see that hope is shifting your first-order thoughts by too large a degree - if you can understand your mind as a mapping-engine with flaws in it - then you can apply a reflective correction.

And what is more, you'll be a man, my son.