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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
One meta belief I have, is that I think "on the face pursuing idealistic objective A, but actually being tilted toward selfish objective B" is better than "openly pursuing objective B". Many seem to believe the opposite, typically saying something like "at least the latter is honest". I feel like what this misses, is that maintaining the face of pursuing idealistic objective A, and using A to coordinate a large coalition, is a pretty big speed bump against attempts to pursue B too brazenly. When "the mask comes off", things actually become much worse, and strategies that pursue B at high costs to other values (including A, and also often general human decency) become unlocked. Are there any good arguments against this intuition I have? (Whether generalized, or about specific situations)
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@90tun
What if you fall to the facade you’re holding up?, if you make peace with openly pursuing what you want to regardless of what other people think, that is always the best option.
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> What if you fall to the facade you’re holding up? As in, if you start pursuing B while using A as a facade, and then end up forgetting the hidden objective and authentically pursuing A? To me that's the best-case outcome. And I think in societies it sometimes actually happens, at least across generations! (gen 1 is "pursue B, use A as a facade", but the schoolteachers believe the facade, then they teach the children, and gen 2 grows up believing A is the actual goal)
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@degenveteran.eth
I always say it's easy to make a great first impression... It's maintaining it that's the problem
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