I don’t get the down votes. I do think it’s extremely simple—look at politics in general or even workplace politics, just try to google it, there even wikipedia pages roughly about what I want to talk about. I have experienced a situation where I need to do my job and my boss makes it harder for me in some way many times—being not completely honest is an obvious strategy and it’s good for the company you are working at
I think the downvotes is because the correct statement is something more like “In some situations, you can do more useful work by being deceptive.” I think this is actually what you argue for, but it’s very different from “To do useful work you need to be deceptive.”
If “To do useful work you need to be deceptive.” this means that one can’t do useful work without being deceptive. This is clearly wrong.
LW discussion norms is that you’re supposed to say what you mean, and not leave people to guess, because this leads to more precise communication. E.g. I guessed that you did not mean what you literary wrote, because that would be dumb, but I don’t know exactly what statement you’re arguing for.
I know this is not standard communication practice in most places, but it is actually very valuable, you should try it.
I don’t get the down votes. I do think it’s extremely simple—look at politics in general or even workplace politics, just try to google it, there even wikipedia pages roughly about what I want to talk about. I have experienced a situation where I need to do my job and my boss makes it harder for me in some way many times—being not completely honest is an obvious strategy and it’s good for the company you are working at
I think the downvotes is because the correct statement is something more like “In some situations, you can do more useful work by being deceptive.” I think this is actually what you argue for, but it’s very different from “To do useful work you need to be deceptive.”
If “To do useful work you need to be deceptive.” this means that one can’t do useful work without being deceptive. This is clearly wrong.
It seems like both me and you are able to decipher what I meant easily—why someone failed to do that
LW discussion norms is that you’re supposed to say what you mean, and not leave people to guess, because this leads to more precise communication. E.g. I guessed that you did not mean what you literary wrote, because that would be dumb, but I don’t know exactly what statement you’re arguing for.
I know this is not standard communication practice in most places, but it is actually very valuable, you should try it.