army1987 comments on Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 03 January 2013 11:23:37PM *  0 points [-]

I still value sincerity a lot, but I no longer think that showing your best side in situations where you're expected to show your best side¹ counts as insincere. See also this Will Newsome comment.

  1. e.g., wearing a suit and speaking standard language in a job interview even though you usually wear jeans and t-shirts and speak dialect outside job interviews, or wearing make-up and high heels when going to a night club where pretty much all people of your gender do that.
Comment author: MugaSofer 04 January 2013 05:01:51PM *  -1 points [-]

It seems to me that dressing/acting informally in a job interview is simply signalling that you don't care about the interview - so unless you genuinely don't care (in which case why hire you) then you're either pretending to be sincere or you're just really bad at job interviews (which probably includes actually sincere people, at that.)

Comment author: [deleted] 04 January 2013 05:08:11PM 0 points [-]

I think you misparsed my comment. I said that being formal is not insincere; I didn't say anything on whether being informal would be.

Comment author: MugaSofer 04 January 2013 05:20:18PM 0 points [-]

Oh, I know. I was agreeing with you, and pointing out that it's arguably more sincere than being informal.

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