orthonormal comments on Rational Communication - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Swimmer963 10 September 2011 02:30AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 11 September 2011 09:00:47PM 2 points [-]

For a while I lived under the motto of 'friends tell friends the truth' which turned out to be a really stupid idea.

Only if imposed unilaterally. Making it clear to your friends that you expect them to tell you the truth on a particularly important matter, in my experience, works quite well.