Hopefully_Anonymous comments on Fake Norms, or "Truth" vs. Truth - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 July 2008 10:23AM

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Comment author: Hopefully_Anonymous 22 July 2008 11:01:32AM 3 points [-]

I don't think promoting truth (or "truth") will serve an aim of a better understanding of the world as much as promoting transparency. There seems to me to be something more naturally subversive to anti-rationality about promoting transparency than promoting "truth".