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Meta-Honesty

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Meta-Honesty is the attempt to be honest about in which situations one will not be honest. It derives from the recognition that an object-level commitment to never lie under any possible circumstance is untenable. A meta-honest person might say something like “I will lie in circumstances similar to an axe-wielding murderer coming to my door and enquiring after the location of my friend.”

Meta-Hon­esty: Firm­ing Up Hon­esty Around Its Edge-Cases

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 29, 2018, 12:59 AM
141 points
155 comments27 min readLW link4 reviews

Firm­ing Up Not-Ly­ing Around Its Edge-Cases Is Less Broadly Use­ful Than One Might Ini­tially Think

Zack_M_DavisDec 27, 2019, 5:09 AM
127 points
43 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

[Re­view] Meta-Hon­esty (Ben Pace, Dec 2019)

Ben PaceDec 10, 2019, 12:37 AM
29 points
4 comments10 min readLW link

Deep Honesty

AletheophileMay 7, 2024, 8:31 PM
158 points
25 comments9 min readLW link

Notes on Honesty

David GrossOct 28, 2020, 12:54 AM
46 points
6 comments20 min readLW link

Con­sis­tent Glo­ma­riza­tion should be feasible

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 4, 2020, 10:06 AM
17 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tual Mug­ging Poker Game

Scott GarrabrantJun 13, 2018, 11:34 PM
113 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The In­co­her­ence of Honesty

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJun 8, 2018, 2:28 AM
20 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

On the Chatham House Rule

Scott GarrabrantJun 13, 2018, 9:41 PM
68 points
25 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Not Tech­ni­cally Lying

PsychohistorianJul 4, 2009, 6:40 PM
50 points
86 comments4 min readLW link

The Onion Test for Per­sonal and In­sti­tu­tional Honesty

Sep 27, 2022, 3:26 PM
162 points
31 comments3 min readLW link3 reviews
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