You lost ability relative to whatever benefits you would have gained via the principled honesty reputation which you have been trying to signal.
I would consider it unethical to lie to someone who I have some reason to believe wouldn’t have waived their right to honesty. Someone who believes that I won’t lie to them might not be disposed to waive that right. So I couldn’t ethically take advantage of the sort of misunderstanding Yvain had about the scope of my ethics.
Don’t misunderstand me. I don’t suggest that you were making a mistake and I respect and acknowledge proactive honesty of the type you mention. I just note that in itself it is disadvantageous within said context.
It had incidentally occurred to me that so sabotaging yourself, conditionally on out of game arrangements could be used to benefit yourself (in game) by providing more incentive for others to make such arrangements. It struck me as somewhat ironic that granting oneself the ability to betray actually could amount to a self destructive signal used for the purpose of influence. (Again, just what could be done, not what you are doing.)
I would consider it unethical to lie to someone who I have some reason to believe wouldn’t have waived their right to honesty. Someone who believes that I won’t lie to them might not be disposed to waive that right. So I couldn’t ethically take advantage of the sort of misunderstanding Yvain had about the scope of my ethics.
Don’t misunderstand me. I don’t suggest that you were making a mistake and I respect and acknowledge proactive honesty of the type you mention. I just note that in itself it is disadvantageous within said context.
It had incidentally occurred to me that so sabotaging yourself, conditionally on out of game arrangements could be used to benefit yourself (in game) by providing more incentive for others to make such arrangements. It struck me as somewhat ironic that granting oneself the ability to betray actually could amount to a self destructive signal used for the purpose of influence. (Again, just what could be done, not what you are doing.)