I think this is very virtuous but also utterly useless. If “just tell the honest truth and don’t signal” worked, Andrew Yang would be president. People prefer simple, pleasant lies to complicated, unpleasant truths. The only kind of person who benefits from this not-signalling is someone whose only goal is to be honest. If you want to actually do things, you have to compete in the mind manipulation war with everyone else.
I think this is very virtuous but also utterly useless. If “just tell the honest truth and don’t signal” worked, Andrew Yang would be president. People prefer simple, pleasant lies to complicated, unpleasant truths. The only kind of person who benefits from this not-signalling is someone whose only goal is to be honest. If you want to actually do things, you have to compete in the mind manipulation war with everyone else.