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But if the opponent knows you subscribe to this rule (assume ignorance over malice), couldn't they take advantage of this?
by clamprecht 7y ago
But if the opponent knows you subscribe to this rule (assume ignorance over malice), couldn't they take advantage of this?
- microcolonel 7y agoThe aphorism does not call upon you to assume good intentions, but to avoid attempting to establish intention when it has no benefit to solving the problem noted.
- thaumasiotes 7y agoYes, there is no stable state of the system in which ignorance and malice are assessed accurately. If you don't want the rate of malicious action to increase, you need to overdiagnose it.