drethelin comments on If epistemic and instrumental rationality strongly conflict - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drethelin 10 May 2012 04:47:04PM 3 points [-]

Situations of plausible deniability for politicians or people in charge of large departments at corporations. Of course you could argue that these situations are bad for society in general, but I'd say it's in the instrumental interest of those leaders to seek the truth to a lesser degree.