Harry Frankfurt's On Bullshit seems relevant here. I think its worth trying to incorporate Frankfurt's definition as well, as it is quite widely known, see e.g. this video - If you were to do so, I think you would say that on Frankfurt's definition, Level 1 tells the truth, Level 2 lies, Level 3 bullshits about physical facts but will lie or tell the truth about things in the social realm (e.g. others motives, your own affiliation), and Level 4 always bullshits.

Taken this way, Frankfurt's model is a higher-level model that distinguishes the ones who care about reality from the ones that don't - roughly speaking, bullshit characterises levels 3 and 4 as the ones unconcerned with reality.

If you did it on the diagram, the union of 3 and 4 would be bullshitters, but shading more strongly towards the 4 end.

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[-]Yoav Ravid5y60

I like this. so instead of having the politician role and the politics 'theme', both for L3+L4, we can have the bullshitter role and the politics theme.

i think your L1 (honestly telling the truth) and L2 (Lies) are good. and i think i would slightly reword L3 as bullshitting while pretending not to bullshit, and L4 as bullshitting without even pretending.

and oh! that gives me a unifying theme for L1 and L4, not pretending! (or at least not needing to)
it's not an optimistic one, but alas it's a connection.

Thanks for the video btw. i Also should really read his essay already :D

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