I’m confused, you aren’t really arguing that people hiding Jews from the Nazis should answer to the SS honestly? Sometimes honesty is unethical.
If statements I make shift a listener’s priors then we can evaluate the statements I choose to make based on how much they shift the listener’s priors towards which truths. This is an interesting way, to compare the decision to make different types of possible statements with lies as a special case. “Successful” lies move at least one of the listener’s priors away from truth, their belief about what you believe.
Even if I’m willing to restrict myself to true statements, which in extreme cases I won’t, I face the dilemma of choosing which true statements to make.
This relates to your post about the clever arguer and filtered evidence.
I’m confused, you aren’t really arguing that people hiding Jews from the Nazis should answer to the SS honestly? Sometimes honesty is unethical.
If statements I make shift a listener’s priors then we can evaluate the statements I choose to make based on how much they shift the listener’s priors towards which truths. This is an interesting way, to compare the decision to make different types of possible statements with lies as a special case. “Successful” lies move at least one of the listener’s priors away from truth, their belief about what you believe.
Even if I’m willing to restrict myself to true statements, which in extreme cases I won’t, I face the dilemma of choosing which true statements to make.
This relates to your post about the clever arguer and filtered evidence.