I’m glad that someone mentions this. I have a strong alief that misrepresenting your opinions to be more palatable is a bad idea if you’re right. It pulls you into a bad equilibrium.
If you sermon the truth, you might lose the respect of those that are wrong, but you will gain the respect of those that are right, and those people are the ones you want in your community.
Having said that, you really do have to be right, and I feel like not even EA’s are up to the herculean task of clearly seeing outside of their political intuitions. I for one have so far been wrong about many things that felt obvious to me.
I guess that’s why we focus on meta truth instead. It seems that the set of rules that arrive at truth are much more easily described than the truth itself.
I’m glad that someone mentions this. I have a strong alief that misrepresenting your opinions to be more palatable is a bad idea if you’re right. It pulls you into a bad equilibrium.
If you sermon the truth, you might lose the respect of those that are wrong, but you will gain the respect of those that are right, and those people are the ones you want in your community.
Having said that, you really do have to be right, and I feel like not even EA’s are up to the herculean task of clearly seeing outside of their political intuitions. I for one have so far been wrong about many things that felt obvious to me.
I guess that’s why we focus on meta truth instead. It seems that the set of rules that arrive at truth are much more easily described than the truth itself.