This assumes that there are two categories of things: Right and wrong.
In real life that’s not the case. If someone tries to judge us their is information that makes him think very highly of us and information that positive but doesn’t have such a big impact.
If you can control that someone only get’s to see the information that makes you look really awesome you achieved something by hiding the information that makes you look medicore.
Nothing you have done needs to be below some threshold that makes it wrong for you to have an advantage by hiding the worst things that you did. As the quality of the things you did naturally fluctuates there will always be worst things.
You could also have done something that a AI that analyses your habits likely pattern matches as suspicious. Given modern technology that means that you will less likely get a good rate when you want to get your mortgage.
Government can also give you trouble with extra inspections when you pattern match to be a dangerous person. It’s not directly punishment but when you run a restaurant and you get more food safety inspections than your competitors because you pattern match to be a dangerous person it still hurts you.
If you fly the TSA will bug you if you score highly on some metric. An AI analyses all communication data and those people who look suspicious will get flagged for extra scrutiny.
In our society we also have a concept that it’s okay to speak with friends in confidence. If you tell a friend that you protect a secret that he tells you, you have something to hide. I don’t think anyone would argue that it’s morally wrong to promise a friend that you will protect a secret he tells you.
If someone asks you whether you are feeling alright, you might not want to talk about a problem that you are facing with that person and hide the problem from them. That in no way implies that you think having the problem is “wrong” it just means that you don’t think that you will profit from discussing the problem with them.
If you made a new invention and haven’t yet patented it, you might want to hide that invention for some time till you are ready to bring the invention to market or patent it. Businesses also have various other forms of trade secrets that they hide. Most busineses don’t want to give a competitor their customer list.
If you are in a negotiation having more information than the other party can give you an advantage. As a result you don’t profit from sharing all information with them.
If you follow TDT you have to hide certain information, because otherwise someone could infer from the fact that you don’t talk about an issue that you feel badly about the issue.
You don’t want that political dissidents, who share your views, can be distinguished by a government from yourself, because you don’t want that the government has the power to go after every political dissident.
This assumes that there are two categories of things: Right and wrong. In real life that’s not the case. If someone tries to judge us their is information that makes him think very highly of us and information that positive but doesn’t have such a big impact. If you can control that someone only get’s to see the information that makes you look really awesome you achieved something by hiding the information that makes you look medicore.
Nothing you have done needs to be below some threshold that makes it wrong for you to have an advantage by hiding the worst things that you did. As the quality of the things you did naturally fluctuates there will always be worst things.
You could also have done something that a AI that analyses your habits likely pattern matches as suspicious. Given modern technology that means that you will less likely get a good rate when you want to get your mortgage.
Government can also give you trouble with extra inspections when you pattern match to be a dangerous person. It’s not directly punishment but when you run a restaurant and you get more food safety inspections than your competitors because you pattern match to be a dangerous person it still hurts you.
If you fly the TSA will bug you if you score highly on some metric. An AI analyses all communication data and those people who look suspicious will get flagged for extra scrutiny.
In our society we also have a concept that it’s okay to speak with friends in confidence. If you tell a friend that you protect a secret that he tells you, you have something to hide. I don’t think anyone would argue that it’s morally wrong to promise a friend that you will protect a secret he tells you.
If someone asks you whether you are feeling alright, you might not want to talk about a problem that you are facing with that person and hide the problem from them. That in no way implies that you think having the problem is “wrong” it just means that you don’t think that you will profit from discussing the problem with them.
If you made a new invention and haven’t yet patented it, you might want to hide that invention for some time till you are ready to bring the invention to market or patent it. Businesses also have various other forms of trade secrets that they hide. Most busineses don’t want to give a competitor their customer list.
If you are in a negotiation having more information than the other party can give you an advantage. As a result you don’t profit from sharing all information with them.
If you follow TDT you have to hide certain information, because otherwise someone could infer from the fact that you don’t talk about an issue that you feel badly about the issue. You don’t want that political dissidents, who share your views, can be distinguished by a government from yourself, because you don’t want that the government has the power to go after every political dissident.