selylindi comments on The End of Bullshit at the hands of Critical Rationalism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: selylindi 09 June 2014 12:15:27AM 6 points [-]

In other words, if a fight is important to you, fight nasty. If that means lying, lie. If that means insults, insult. If that means silencing people, silence.

Holy shit yes! If you have anything to protect use all of your available strength to protect it! Shut up and multiply, think for at least five minutes about the problem, apply every ounce of your technique and then win.

Whatever you happened to believe, the winningest answer would be "No, never lie". Because now that you've claimed your political position is likely to be based on lies, I've updated to consider arguments from that position as having zero evidential weight.

I would have thought that The Boy Who Cried Wolf was an adequate explanation in childhood of the selfish reasons to be honest.

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