Douglas_Knight comments on White Lies - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 10 February 2014 02:45:04AM 3 points [-]

Saying "I do the socially normal thing" is pretty good evidence that you don't do the socially normal thing.

Structurally, this post and its comments are extremely similar to the pua threads.

Comment author: ChrisHallquist 10 February 2014 07:23:32PM *  0 points [-]

Saying "I do the socially normal thing" is pretty good evidence that you don't do the socially normal thing.

In a sense, yes. Normally you don't announce you do the socially normal thing. But when you're in a subculture where lots of people don't do the socially normal thing...

Comment author: Vulture 11 February 2014 03:37:05AM 0 points [-]

Agreed. Very few of the positions on lying taken in this thread could be classified as "socially normal" outside of (or in a number of cases even inside of) LW-associated circles.