If you don’t make the world perfect by the judgment of every person in existence at this very moment, you are a hypocrite.
If you don’t internalize the best character traits of every human role model in history that you have and donate a billion dollars to every effective charity, you’re a hypocrite.
Look, I don’t know what your reward function is, but if you do not max it out right now, you’re a hypocrite.
What’s stopping you from mastering everything perfectly right now? Could it be that you don’t understand perfection? What’s stopping you from understanding perfection? Could it be that it’s complicated? Why would you be so conflicted? To feel conflicted must be some kind of hypocrisy or something.
Here’s an easy task for an AI: make everyone smile. How noble of the AI to be so certain in his sense of right and wrong.
Ah crap, I’m being a belligerent. I’m sorry I overreacted to your post. Consider my attack valid on a kind of person who argues your point who is not you; someone who can’t operationalize in more agreeable terms. Maybe you can operationalize your point in a more agreeable way. If you can, I have done you injustice by being so harsh. If you can’t, I still shouldn’t discourage you so harshly from making an attempt to make sense of things.
In the course of speaking honestly, you might not be speaking with everything you know and identify with present in mind. Maybe your working memory can’t easily reconcile everything known at once. To take one instance of honest expression and deem it decisively representative of a person’s entire potential honesty, as if you had never confronted a complex dilemma and spoke based on formative impressions, is an act of bad faith, or just very naive.
Listeners might have misconceptions about the required implications of the spoken words as well.
We can accept all of:
A. The spoken words tell us something about the person’s mindset
B. The spoken words don’t tell us everything about the person’s mindset
C. The background assumptions with which we make inferences about the person’s mindset given their spoken words might be flawed
D. The speaker might not mean all of the connotations perceived by the listeners
E. Listeners are predisposed to hearing things in extremely simplistic terms, especially on certain topics, and are irrationally unprepared to even entertain background information from which the speaker makes sense
F. The speaker is being honest with respect to the information they are biologically capable of thinking about at one time, which may not be all the information they can notice, and future versions of themselves could readily disavow old positions once this information is recalled; “future” being as soon as during the course of the same conversation, awkward though it may be to reveal your imperfection.