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I couldn't follow a lot of this, but it led me to examine my own beliefs about honesty and when I should be honest, and made me realize that unless you fear imminent harm like the gestapo example, you should never lie about what you are and are not willing to lie or glommerize about, but you should glommerize quite a bit on the subject of what you'd lie about.
I feel like "figure out the constraints of your problem" is an incredibly general problem solving tip. "Not knowing the constraints" is very close to "being unable to easily distinguish a solution from a failed attempt", and you can't solve anything if you don't know what a solution looks like.
Identifying the goals, constraints, and variables subject to minmaxing is the first step in any problem solving, and if you can skip that, it's usually because you already have an intuitive idea that's close enough to correct that the best solution within your ... (read more)