In response to Devil's Offers
Comment author: michael_vassar3 25 December 2008 03:56:37PM 22 points [-]

"I flinched away from that thought's implications, not so much because I feared superintelligent paternalism myself, but because I feared what other people would say of that position."

This is basically THE reason I always advocate increased comfort with lying. It seems to me that this fear of believing what they don't want to say if they only believe truth is the single largest seemingly removable barrier to people becoming rationalists at all, or passing that barrier, to becoming the best rationalists they can be.

Comment author: iongantas 28 October 2010 06:50:50PM 8 points [-]

Can you expound on this just a bit. The second sentence is slightly difficult to parse, but sound like an interesting notion, so I'd like to be sure I understand what you said.

Comment author: gwern 10 October 2010 12:03:17AM 2 points [-]

And not by someone who intends to use it for good, it seems.

(Only now do I realize that 'overpoweringfalsehood.com' isn't that bad a domain name.)

Comment author: iongantas 10 October 2010 01:34:39PM 6 points [-]

That depends entirely on whether 'overpowering' is a verb or an adjective.