Demosthenes comments on Degrees of Radical Honesty - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Demosthenes 01 April 2009 12:24:29AM 1 point [-]

If you'll lie when the fate of the world is at stake, and others can guess that fact about you, then, at the moment when the fate of the world is at stake, that's the moment when your words become the whistling of the wind.

Is it correct to interpret this as similar to Pascal's Wager? The possibility of a fate-of-the-world moment is very low but the payout for being an honest fellow in this case is huge?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 April 2009 02:35:04AM 4 points [-]

No, it's a similar dilemma at all scales - the point is that it doesn't change just because the stakes are large.