If you want to become more honest and less self-deceiving, acquire power
If you want to make other people more honest and less self-deceiving, provide them with power (including power to protect themselves from you)
If you know someone who is more powerful than you but cant guarantee an upper bound on their power (and future power), then occlumency no longer works
Unboundedness
If you want an unlimited amount of power (such as a utility maximiser), there will almost always be coalitions of people more powerful than you against whom self-deception works
As long as there exist (hostile) coalitions of people unboundedly more powerful than you, completely removing self-deception from yourself is impossible
Corollaries:
Honesty
Unboundedness
More than just yourself
- If you
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