MacAskill: Radical Honesty Fails by Ignoring Language's Symbolic Meaning
William MacAskill · #36 William MacAskill: The Science of Doing Good · Jul 11, 2018 · at 58:48
William MacAskill, philosopher and co-founder of Effective Altruism, critiques the concept of radical honesty in conversation with Shane Parrish.
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“Going all out in terms of radical honesty is not appreciating the kind of symbolic aspect of language. It's just kind of, it's like somewhat too narrow, too literalist in terms of how it understands language.”
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