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Critic: "'Other skills' means skills of manipulation, rationalists readily abandon honesty in favour of power."
I just want to clarify that this is not what I think, but I have seen comments of this kind made about Overcoming Bias (on other blogs), though never about Less Wrong. I have never written anything in reply. I was wondering how anyone here would respond to this kind social criticism. Would you even care enough to respond?
Power and honesty (or, more accurately, Friendliness?) aren't mutually exclusive, but yes, that's a major issue. Maybe we need to spend more time talking about Friendliness here, even though it's not exactly a rationalist topic?