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I try to never truly lie, but I do sometimes not say all what I think, or abstain from discussion, or say a watered-down version of what I believe, because I hold a belief that will cost me reputation in a given community, and that applies on LW too.
But it's hard to quantify that as a number, because belief are interconnected. Usually in a given community, most of the belief I don't expose too openly are linked together to a set of entangled core belief. Like transhumanism in my family circle. Obviously I won't say on LW ;)
I'm glad you said "a watered-down version of what I believe." I've used that strategy on LW to avoid having my arguments dismissed on account of guilt-by-association with some pet peeve of my audience. I will go out of my way to avoid sounding like a postmodernist, say, even on a particular issue whereupon what some postmodernist has said is dead right and exactly to the point.
Upvoted for giving a specific example of an issue where these problems occur.