“The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.”

—  Eliezer Yudkowsky

Honesty: Beyond Internal Truth (June 2009) http://lesswrong.com/lw/101/honesty_beyond_internal_truth/

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