You'll break your word to people not smart enough to realize you'll break your word to people who aren't smart enough.
If you try to add to that category people who know that, but think that they are smart enough, then it gets tricky. How do I know whether I actually am smart enough, or whether I just think I'm smart enough.
Today's post, Prices or Bindings? was originally published on 21 October 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
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