Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 October 2008 11:39PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 October 2008 01:30:53AM 10 points [-]

Honesty is an end in itself, but because the benefits involve unknown unknowns and black-swan bets, they are underrated.

Comment author: SkyDK 24 March 2012 10:52:55AM 3 points [-]

And this doesn't sound like a teleological argument to yourself?

Comment author: notsonewuser 02 January 2014 03:34:47PM 1 point [-]

Can someone expand on this? I don't understand how Eliezer's comment was a teleological argument.

Comment author: Insert_Idionym_Here 03 July 2013 06:25:36AM *  2 points [-]

I think you enormously over-state the difficulty of lying well, as well as the advantages of honesty.