What do you do to ensure you’re actually being honest, given the huge array of options one has to share cherry-picked data, vaguely imply things, etc? Esp. if we have reason to think we’re subconsciously finding the nearest unblocked strategies?
Right now, I don’t actually see an “x = ∞” option available. I don’t have time to write every inconvenient thought that pops into my head. I don’t even have time to publish the convenient things that I think would definitely improve the world if I communicated more about them. How do I decide which inconvenient things to say out loud? What processes can I follow to write up thoughts in a truly intellectually honest way?
It seems like if we had a good answer, then people aspiring towards Strong Honesty would not only have clearer ideas of how to improve, there could potentially be a new schelling fence to more easily coordinate around.
[I will attempt to actually try answering this question at some point. If it is The Loosely Defined Future and I haven’t responded to this comment, feel free to yell at me until I’ve at least spent 30 minutes brainstorming and published the result]
A thing that’s making this discussion harder is the open problem you listed in your prior post.
What do you do to ensure you’re actually being honest, given the huge array of options one has to share cherry-picked data, vaguely imply things, etc? Esp. if we have reason to think we’re subconsciously finding the nearest unblocked strategies?
Right now, I don’t actually see an “x = ∞” option available. I don’t have time to write every inconvenient thought that pops into my head. I don’t even have time to publish the convenient things that I think would definitely improve the world if I communicated more about them. How do I decide which inconvenient things to say out loud? What processes can I follow to write up thoughts in a truly intellectually honest way?
It seems like if we had a good answer, then people aspiring towards Strong Honesty would not only have clearer ideas of how to improve, there could potentially be a new schelling fence to more easily coordinate around.
[I will attempt to actually try answering this question at some point. If it is The Loosely Defined Future and I haven’t responded to this comment, feel free to yell at me until I’ve at least spent 30 minutes brainstorming and published the result]