ChrisHallquist comments on White Lies - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: ChrisHallquist 11 February 2014 02:19:14AM 0 points [-]

I know. I'm pretty sure Eliezer intended that arc to partly be about how horrible lying is; see especially the follow-up chapter being titled "Contagious Lies," which is a reference to an anti-lying post in the sequences.

Comment author: Vulture 11 February 2014 02:22:12AM *  2 points [-]

I'm pretty sure Eliezer intended that arc to partly be about how horrible lying is;

Interesting. I hadn't thought of that - personally, I have to admit that I think the model of Rational!Quirrell has left me significantly more favorably disposed towards lying than I would have been otherwise.