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Formally, hypocrisy is the act of claiming to motives, morals and standards one does not possess. Informally, it refers to not living up to the standards that one espouses, whether or not one sincerely believes those standards.

Blog posts

  • Resolving Your Hypocrisy by Robin Hanson
  • Self-deception: Hypocrisy or Akrasia?

See also

  • Self-deception
  • Motivated Reasoning.
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