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I tend to feel like "truth" has no intrinsic value, by itself. It's all about the consequences of lying.
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connecting that to the bacteria-field-theory thing, I wonder: what are the absolute simplest systems capable of "lying"?
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N=238, "loyalty to truth first" beats "loyalty to friends" 62% to 38%. I expected 85-15 in this Twitter nbhd.
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just a signal like any other, be it cosmic radiation, imperial edicts, or weather. Some signal, some noise.
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Not sure how to answer. I won't put friends before truth, but I'll fight harder for friends than for truth when they're not opposed.
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I feel like my life is pretty neatly factored into "private life where I care about truth" and "in public, be nice"
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as I grow older I find myself moving along this axis from truth and toward friends. Started extremely 'truth' and now at the midpoint
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