and at some point i guess it's better to have one's actual fuckups verifiably attributable than to have ones made up for you, with lack of endorsed record contributing indistinguishability to any claim

from paulgraham.com/greatwork.html, paraphrased to fit

i like changing my mind, and have done so in big swings before

being held to deprecated words sucks but i guess braving the oops and helping normalize pride-in-admitting-mistake vs concealing-or-doubling-down-for-pride better than laying low

> if you haven't said anything publicly, you won't be biased toward evidence that supports earlier conclusions. With sufficient integrity you could achieve eternal youth in this, but few manage to. For most, having previously published opinions has an effect similar to ideology, just in quantity 1.