This is particularly true when lying. When you're in an interaction where you need to lie you shouldn't be thinking about how to convince the other party - you need to be utterly convinced yourself.
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Replying to @outer_dialogue @chaosprime
That's the biggest problem with lying though: if you're really good at lying you have to lie to yourself and that erodes your sanity.
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It's ultimately much easier to pursue your advantage where you can do so with honesty.
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I'm not sure what I'm doing here is virtue signalling. Intelligent people may well be able to keep two or more minds about a matter for a very long time. But if you're not too smart, it's easier to constrain the struggle to handling all the times you're just wrong about things
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Replying to @rheophile10 @outer_dialogue
concur telling the truth means not having to remember anything
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Replying to @chaosprime @outer_dialogue
and it's hard enough to figure out by itself, right? And it's hostile to your desires and intentions more often than not so just handling it is a struggle. If you can do that and lie too, then possibly your talents are wasted
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Replying to @rheophile10 @outer_dialogue
yeah, it's highly analogous to the principle that you should never write code that's as clever as you can write, because debugging it is twice as hard so now you're half as clever as it takes to debug it lying is clever
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While i agree in principle, i have yet to encounter it in a serious discussion where it is *not* used by some idiot pulling the rest down to their level. As in "`const names = http://items.map (item => http://item.name )` cant be understand by mere mortals!11!"
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Replying to @keppla @chaosprime and
To bring it back to the analogy: some cleverness can be tamed by patterns or infrastructure. For lying, bureaucracy and attorneys come to mind.
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Or, in smaller scale: preventive exculpifing documentation. "I dont remember, it's so long ago, let's look into the documents... a, there it is, black on white: '
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yeah, my idea of "clever" is less use of elementary language features (people say the same shit about the conditional operator) and more implementing business logic as an elegant side effect of subtle mathematical transformations. y'know, like Russians like to write
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"Oh, its simple when you realize that the action of putting something in the cart is just a f c -> c in the generalized shopping monad", like this?
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kinda, but with more trigonometric functions and bit shifting you got the single character variable names spot on though
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