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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Telling the Truth Strategically
When push comes to shove strategically, it is a bad strategy to be fully honest and transparent to your tribe. Robert Trivers has this great theory about how self deception is selected for. In other words, he's referring to the idea that cognitively speaking, it's actually impossible to be really honest about your abilities.