For the record, I never intended to argue that any statement which shifts the audience’s priors towards what I perceive to be the truth is justified.
What I was starting to get at, and I hope Eliezer will address, is how we should select which true statements to make.
What about true statements which shift at least one of the listener’s priors away from the true prior? What about avoiding true statements which would improve the listener’s priors?
I believe that intelligent people sometimes avoid telling lies by selectively choosing truths which manipulate someones priors.
For the record, I never intended to argue that any statement which shifts the audience’s priors towards what I perceive to be the truth is justified.
What I was starting to get at, and I hope Eliezer will address, is how we should select which true statements to make.
What about true statements which shift at least one of the listener’s priors away from the true prior? What about avoiding true statements which would improve the listener’s priors?
I believe that intelligent people sometimes avoid telling lies by selectively choosing truths which manipulate someones priors.