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What do you mean? Should one try to hide their ignorance instead? I do not follow.
Yes, a lot of the time hiding ignorance is more instrumentally useful than exposing your ignorance.
The first sentence talks about "living smart". The second sentence talks about "the way to be right, in the long-term". Those are two very different things. Relatively few people have the latter as a their core life goal and it would be a stretch to say that it constitutes 'living smart' even then. (Note: I'm one of them but that changes nothing!)
I suppose instrumental depends on whom you're exposing it to. :)
I good general philosophy.
It is always more useful to expose your own ignorance to yourself, which is what the author implies, then to indulge in self-deception.
That isn't evident in the quote.