If you want to become more honest and less self-deceiving, acquire power
If you want to make other people more honest and less self-deceiving, provide them with power (including power to protect themselves from you)
If you know someone who is more powerful than you but cant guarantee an upper bound on their power (and future power), then occlumency no longer works
Unboundedness
If you want an unlimited amount of power (such as a utility maximiser), there will almost always be coalitions of people more powerful than you against whom s
What would you say that the main types of power are?
My list (for humans): physical security, financial security, social security, emotional security (this one you can only give yourself though)
Corollaries:
Honesty
Unboundedness
- If you want an unlimited amount of power (such as a utility maximiser), there will almost always be coalitions of people more powerful than you against whom s
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