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.)
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.)