Lonnen comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 3 - Less Wrong
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That agrees with my intuitions. I had some series of ideas that ware developing around the idea that exploiting biases was sometimes necessary, and then I found:
Eliezer on Informers and Persuaders
It would seem that in trying to defend others against heuristic exploitation it may be more expedient to exploit heuristics yourself.
I'm not sure where Eliezer got the 'just exactly as elegant as the previous Persuader, no more, no less" part from. That seems completely arbitrary. As though the universe somehow decrees that optimal informing strategies must be 'fair'.