There are cases where being honest leads to discrimination.
Like every situation in life ever?
Practicality anything that I disclose will shift someone assessments of me on some metric or another, and from what we know of status assessment and things like the halo effect we can infer this is almost never neatly contained. I don't quite see how in principle selective dishonesty in the form of disclosing information that improves my standing rather than hurts it is anything but typical human behaviour. Sure one can argue that its justified only for when I have good reason to believe what I disclosed would be used to judged unfairly.
But all people tend to view any heuristics that can discriminate against them as baseless and unfair.
This is thread where I'm trying to figure out a few things about signalling on LessWrong and need some information, so please immediately after reading about the two individuals please answer the poll. The two individuals:
A. Sees that an interpretation of reality shared by others is not correct, but tries to pretend otherwise for personal gain and/or safety.
B. Fails to see that an interpretation of reality is shared by others is flawed. He is therefore perfectly honest in sharing the interpretation of reality with others. The reward regime for outward behaviour is the same as with A.
To add a trivial inconvenience that matches the inconvenience of answering the poll before reading on, comments on what I think the two individuals signal,what the trade off is and what I speculate the results might be here versus the general population, is behind this link.