Rixie comments on Mundane Magic - Less Wrong

102 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 October 2008 04:00PM

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Comment author: DanielLC 12 October 2012 06:55:31AM 2 points [-]

The curse of visible intent.

That can be pretty useful. If everyone knows that you can't lie, they'll be much more likely to trust you. If you need money, you could just borrow it from someone and promise to return it with interest. They'll happily lend it to you, knowing that you intend to pay it back. You might change your mind, but you probably won't, so it's worth while for the interest.

Comment author: Rixie 27 July 2013 01:16:37AM 0 points [-]

But then you can't just borrow and not give it back.

Comment author: DanielLC 27 July 2013 02:23:08AM 1 point [-]

You can't anyway, since nobody is going to lend it to you without a good reason to believe you'll give it back.