In other words, if a fight is important to you, fight nasty. If that means lying, lie. If that means insults, insult. If that means silencing people, silence.
Holy shit yes! If you have anything to protect use all of your available strength to protect it! Shut up and multiply, think for at least five minutes about the problem, apply every ounce of your technique and then win.
Whatever you happened to believe, the winningest answer would be “No, never lie”. Because now that you’ve claimed your political position is likely to be based on lies, I’ve updated to consider arguments from that position as having zero evidential weight.
I would have thought that The Boy Who Cried Wolf was an adequate explanation in childhood of the selfish reasons to be honest.
If the Butlerian Jihad is at your door looking for the FAI researchers in your floorboards, you lie and tell them you’re a loyal luddite. If you need a little more funding to finish your FAI and you can get it by pretending to be working on the next Snapchat clone to get VC money, lie to your VCs.
Like literally everything in life, lying has risks. but if you in your art as a rationalist decide those risks are acceptable only base dogmatism dictates you be honest and turn over your friends to be executed or allow humans to continue to die.
The moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is not to be honest; it’s to not get caught lying.
(As an entire aside, do you really think that any political position, or even any fact anywhere that has touched human minds, is not at least partially based on lies? You might as well update the world to have zero evidential weight and spend all your time on a webforum arguing about ethics instead of going into the real world and effecting your goals.)
Whatever you happened to believe, the winningest answer would be “No, never lie”. Because now that you’ve claimed your political position is likely to be based on lies, I’ve updated to consider arguments from that position as having zero evidential weight.
I would have thought that The Boy Who Cried Wolf was an adequate explanation in childhood of the selfish reasons to be honest.
I don’t think I have claimed that.
If the Butlerian Jihad is at your door looking for the FAI researchers in your floorboards, you lie and tell them you’re a loyal luddite. If you need a little more funding to finish your FAI and you can get it by pretending to be working on the next Snapchat clone to get VC money, lie to your VCs.
Like literally everything in life, lying has risks. but if you in your art as a rationalist decide those risks are acceptable only base dogmatism dictates you be honest and turn over your friends to be executed or allow humans to continue to die.
The moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is not to be honest; it’s to not get caught lying.
(As an entire aside, do you really think that any political position, or even any fact anywhere that has touched human minds, is not at least partially based on lies? You might as well update the world to have zero evidential weight and spend all your time on a webforum arguing about ethics instead of going into the real world and effecting your goals.)