MBlume comments on Degrees of Radical Honesty - Less Wrong

30 Post author: MBlume 31 March 2009 08:36PM

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Comment author: MBlume 01 April 2009 07:27:43PM 0 points [-]

That's why I think that if, say, a scientist were tempted by the Noble Lie "this bomb would actually destroy the whole earth, we cannot work on it any further," this would be a terrible decision. By the same logic that says I hand Omega $100 so that counterfactual me gets $10000, I should not attempt to lie about such a risk so that counterfactual me can be believed where the risk actually exists