Gunnar_Zarncke comments on White Lies - Less Wrong

38 Post author: ChrisHallquist 08 February 2014 01:20AM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 08 February 2014 02:35:03AM 0 points [-]

If you're highly averse to lying, I'm not going to spend a lot of time trying to convince you to tell white lies more often. But I will implore you to do one thing: accept other people's right to lie to you.

This sounds right and is the central idea of you post.

Maybe you should place "accept other people's right to lie to you." as a summary at the top?

Comment author: wedrifid 08 February 2014 03:14:39AM *  1 point [-]

This sounds right and is the central idea of you post.

Maybe you should place "accept other people's right to lie to you." as a summary at the top?

By my way of interpreting the post treating this idea as central does the post a great disservice. Most of the post is excellent but that particular paragraph is a clumsy social move and questionably simplistic advice.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 08 February 2014 04:20:58AM 2 points [-]

Then I'm interested as what you see as the central point.

When I read exactly that paragraph it seems to sumarize it nicely. But maybe I fell prey to the "clumsy social move" although I believe I read over that appeal.

If you really see a different central point then this might mean that the post has less clear a focus as Chris might wish.

Comment author: ChrisHallquist 09 February 2014 02:46:51AM 1 point [-]

I think it's a very important sub-point, but I wouldn't call it the central idea of the post.