Z_M_Davis comments on Instrumental vs. Epistemic -- A Bardic Perspective - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 25 April 2009 10:15:52PM 8 points [-]

If you want your wife to be happy, and you do things to make her happy, that's nothing but genuine. If you had to adjust your automatic instruments for happy-making to suit her preferences, as long as it's known that you're doing that, that isn't dishonest.

If she asks you outright if you are interested in shopping... and you tell her you are... then I am pleased not to be your wife.

But this is me. As I have said, I could easily be an outlier. Maybe I'm the only person in the world who hates being lied to enough to really want this kind of honesty.

Comment author: Z_M_Davis 25 April 2009 10:55:05PM 5 points [-]

Maybe I'm the only person in the world who hates being lied to enough to really want this kind of honesty.

You are not alone!