michaelkeenan comments on Open Thread: February 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: michaelkeenan 15 February 2010 12:49:53PM 5 points [-]

I don't like that you are trying to mislead others.

"Promoting less than maximally accurate beliefs is an act of sabotage. Don’t do it to anyone unless you’d also slash their tires, because they’re Nazis or whatever." - The Black Belt Bayesian

The deception you've described is of course minor and maybe you don't lie about important things. But it seems a dangerous strategy, for your own epistemic hygiene, to be casual with the truth. Even if I didn't regard it as ethically questionable, I wouldn't be habitually dishonest for the sake of my own mind.