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If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy. …
x Dark Side Epistemology — LessWrong Against Rationalization Dark Arts Rationality Frontpage 137 Dark Side Epistemology by Eliezer Yudkowsky 17th Oct 2008 6 min read 159 137 If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy. I have discussed the notion that lies are contagious. If you pick up a pebble from the driveway, and tell a geologist that you found it on a beach—well, do you know what a geologist knows about rocks? I don’t. But I can suspect that a water-worn pebble wouldn’t look like a droplet of frozen lava from a volcanic eruption. Do you know where the pebble in your drivew
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