+He visibly [cared about other people being in touch with reality](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/anCubLdggTWjnEvBS/your-rationality-is-my-business). "I've informed a number of male college students that they have large, clearly detectable body odors. In every single case so far, they say nobody has ever told them that before," [he wrote](https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/kLR5H4pbaBjzZxLv6/polyhacking/comment/rYKwptdgLgD2dBnHY). (I can testify that this is true: while sharing a car ride with Anna Salamon in 2011, he told me I had B.O.)
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+Informing people about their body odor is above-and-beyond truth-telling behavior: it's an area where people would benefit from feedback (if you know, you can invest in deodorant), but aren't getting that feedback by default (because no one wants to be so rude as to tell people they smell bad).
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+[TODO—
+ * There's an obvious analogy to telling people they have B.O., to telling trans people that they don't pass.
+ * It's not that I expect him to do it. (I don't do that, either.) But I'd expect him to _notice_ it as pro-Truth action. His pattern of public statements suggests he doesn't even notice!!
+ * The EY who care about people being in touch with reality is dead now.
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+In a Discord discussion, [he remarked](yudkowsky-i_might_have_made_a_fundamental_mistake.png):
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+> I might have made a fundamental mistake when I decided, long ago, that I was going to try to teach people how to reason so that they'd be able to process my arguments about AGI and AGI alignment through a mechanism that would discriminate true from false statements.
+>
+> maybe I should've just learned to persuade people of things instead
+
+ * I got offended; I complained in Discord that this amounted to giving up on the concept of intellectual honesty ; davis-amounts-to-giving-up-on-the-concept-of-intellectual-honesty.png
+ * He put a checkmark on it.
+]
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+The modern [Yudkowsky writes](https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1096769579362115584):