hiding your beliefs, in ways that predictably leads people to believe false things, is lying
I think this has got to be tempered by Grice to be accurate. Like, if I don’t bring up some unusual fact about my life in a brief conversation (e.g. that I consume iron supplements once a week), this predictably leads people to believe something false about my life (that I do not consume iron supplements once a week), but is not reasonably understood as the bad type of lie—otherwise to be an honest person I’d have to tell everyone tons of minutiae about myself all the time that they don’t care about.
Is this relevant to the point of the post? Maybe a bit—if I (that is, literally me) don’t tell the world that I wish people would stop advancing the frontier of AI, I don’t think that’s terribly deceitful or ruining coordination. What has to be true for me to have a duty to say that? Maybe for me to be a big AI thinkfluencer or something? I’m not sure, and the post doesn’t really make it clear.
I think this has got to be tempered by Grice to be accurate. Like, if I don’t bring up some unusual fact about my life in a brief conversation (e.g. that I consume iron supplements once a week), this predictably leads people to believe something false about my life (that I do not consume iron supplements once a week), but is not reasonably understood as the bad type of lie—otherwise to be an honest person I’d have to tell everyone tons of minutiae about myself all the time that they don’t care about.
Is this relevant to the point of the post? Maybe a bit—if I (that is, literally me) don’t tell the world that I wish people would stop advancing the frontier of AI, I don’t think that’s terribly deceitful or ruining coordination. What has to be true for me to have a duty to say that? Maybe for me to be a big AI thinkfluencer or something? I’m not sure, and the post doesn’t really make it clear.