dclayh comments on Rational lies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dclayh 23 November 2009 06:57:24AM 1 point [-]

Eliezer previously on the utility of ethics and truth-telling particularly.

Comment author: PlaidX 23 November 2009 02:52:04PM 4 points [-]

This I knew from the beginning: That if I had no ethics I would hold to even with the world at stake, I had no ethics at all. And I could guess how that would turn out.

This line has always confused me. How DOES he think "that" would turn out, aside from him being less of a whiny goody-two-shoes?

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