[SEQ RERUN] Radical Honesty

MinibearRex

Today's post, Radical Honesty was originally published on 10 September 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

The Radical Honesty movement requires participants to speak the truth, always, whatever they think. The more competent you grow at avoiding self-deceit, the more of a challenge this would be - but it's an interesting thing to imagine, and perhaps strive for.

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Today's post, Radical Honesty was originally published on 10 September 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

The Radical Honesty movement requires participants to speak the truth, always, whatever they think. The more competent you grow at avoiding self-deceit, the more of a challenge this would be - but it's an interesting thing to imagine, and perhaps strive for.

On that topic, I've read papers on how lying to others increases self deception, but all the papers I've read had someone tell a blatant lie. I've never read a paper where the subject was saying something misleading, like you mentioned with the Aes Sedai. I imagine the effects would be very much the same. Have any studies been done on that?