Truth Vignettes
aka nerds nerding out about / obsessing about / fetishizing Truth
This is just a list I’m collecting, possibly for a future blog post, or just because.
Hover over the links for further commentary.
- Why To Always Say “No Comment”
- Meta-Honesty: Firming up honesty around its edge-cases
- Don’t Be a Smarmbot
- Slytherin 404 Errors
- In Favor of Niceness, Community, and Civilization
- From the Commits.to spec:
It was really bugging me that my future-tense statements could sometimes be falsehoods.
So I started building this system so that instead of making a potentially false statement about what I’ll do, I can instead, impeccably truthfully and more informatively, always give an exact probability that I’ll do the thing.
My current reliability for doing what I say is ~94%.
- Beeminder support rule:
Never type “I canceled the charge” and then cancel the charge.
Even if you don’t send it till you’ve canceled it, just typing a momentarily false statement should feel wrong.
- Beeminder’s copyright date
- Derek Parfit’s synthetic cat
- Notes on Honesty by David Gross, and sequel,
Notes on Sincerity
- Beeminder on psychological pricing
- A “tell the truth” tattoo
- Explicit Honesty, by Scott Alexander (subscribers-only post)
- Fake Data Is The Devil
Candidates for inclusion that I haven’t vetted yet: