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Paradox of Honesty

Minds Almost Meeting

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I'm Doing Good, Is That Also a Nor?

Being honest is a norm. Wa about the other side, i'm doing good. Is that also a nor? It's more than a norm. It's more what we each might want to do if we were feeling especially generous. The key idea might be that we can't just set up a normor we say, each of us should just do what we can to make everybody better off. And that would be the ideal norm. But it's hard to enforce, because it'sHard to tell in any one person an act, whether what they're doing is helping us all. We choose rules of thumb that are easier to identify whether you did or didn't follow the rule of thumb

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