mwengler comments on This post is for sacrificing my credibility! - Less Wrong

-29 Post author: Will_Newsome 02 June 2012 12:08AM

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Comment author: mwengler 02 June 2012 04:01:45PM 0 points [-]

So what are your goals?

To never, ever lie.

I did in fact LOL at that one!

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but I still can't figure out if fiction presented as fact is a lie or not. I suppose when I have that sorted out I will be ready to answer your original credibility question. Its just a feeling, but I am unusually intuitive.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 02 June 2012 04:08:53PM 0 points [-]

I was lying. I gave my true answer elsewhere in the comments. But there's an important sense in which I wasn't lying. As many non-neurotypical people know, lying is a complex phenomenon. Sometimes the truth is a lie on a higher level, and about more important things.