Kawoomba comments on Tell Culture - Less Wrong

109 Post author: BrienneYudkowsky 18 January 2014 08:13PM

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Comment author: Kawoomba 18 January 2014 08:03:27PM 3 points [-]

Signaling pleasantness is sometimes near to signalling low status. In some situations it will give you benefits in others it might not.

Quite so. Which is why constraining yourself to honesty precludes you from always choosing the personally beneficial path.