“Would I be willing to publicly defend this as a situation in which unusually honest people should lie, if somebody posed it as a hypothetical?” Maybe that just gets turned into “It’s permissible to lie so long as you’d be honest about whether you’d tell that lie if anyone asks you that exact question and remembers to say they’re invoking the meta-honesty code,” because people can’t process the meta-part correctly.
Thank you for this direct contrast! It gave me the opportunity to understand why you added this part in the first place. (The difference between the statements seemed obvious enough, but engaging with the difference, I think I now understand why you specifically say “willing to publicly defend … if someone posed it as a hypothetical?”—because that thought process is needed for your counterfactual selves to feel safe with you, basically. Speaking with all realities equally existing for a moment: If you do not check that box, and someone asks you a hypothetical that describes a counterfactual self’s actual circumstances in which they believed that unusually honest people should lie, you will not think to defend it, thereby putting you roughly in the situation of “I only Glomarize if I have something to hide”. (This is much less precise than your essay, obviously, but I needed to phrase it in a way that is natural to me to check if my understanding is actually present.))
Thank you for this direct contrast! It gave me the opportunity to understand why you added this part in the first place.
(The difference between the statements seemed obvious enough, but engaging with the difference, I think I now understand why you specifically say “willing to publicly defend … if someone posed it as a hypothetical?”—because that thought process is needed for your counterfactual selves to feel safe with you, basically.
Speaking with all realities equally existing for a moment: If you do not check that box, and someone asks you a hypothetical that describes a counterfactual self’s actual circumstances in which they believed that unusually honest people should lie, you will not think to defend it, thereby putting you roughly in the situation of “I only Glomarize if I have something to hide”. (This is much less precise than your essay, obviously, but I needed to phrase it in a way that is natural to me to check if my understanding is actually present.))