Viliam comments on Open thread, Nov. 16 - Nov. 22, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam 20 November 2015 09:04:29AM 2 points [-]

This is extremely important.

Truths are entangled, and if you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy. In politics, it is often an advantage to sell a specific lie. Sometimes the most efficient way to do that repeatedly is to allocate a huge budget for "lowering the sanity waterline".

(Here is an example of what it looks like when someone uses a political crisis in your country to launch an insanity attack.)