Re-reading the post, I see I was mistaken. Eliezer is undeniably proposing an absolute rule on the meta-level, not one where dishonesty should be “held to an extremely high bar” as I discussed.
I’ll try to compress the difference between our proposals: I was proposing “Be highly honest, and be consistent when you talk about it on the meta-level”, whereas Eliezer is proposing “Be highly honest, and be absolutely honest when you talk about it on the meta-level”. The part I quoted was his consequentialist argument that the absolute rule would not be that costly, not a consequentialist account of when to be honest on the meta-level.
Re-reading the post, I see I was mistaken. Eliezer is undeniably proposing an absolute rule on the meta-level, not one where dishonesty should be “held to an extremely high bar” as I discussed.
I’ll try to compress the difference between our proposals: I was proposing “Be highly honest, and be consistent when you talk about it on the meta-level”, whereas Eliezer is proposing “Be highly honest, and be absolutely honest when you talk about it on the meta-level”. The part I quoted was his consequentialist argument that the absolute rule would not be that costly, not a consequentialist account of when to be honest on the meta-level.