I like the attempt to separate intent from effect. I don’t think you’ve quite succeeded in this, though—you probably need new words—“deceptive”, “lie”, and the like are VERY entangled with common social judgement and signaling (which themselves are often map-manipulating uses).
It may also help to separate intent/causality of behavior at different times. P.redator is, presumably, evolved rather than using a cognitive model, but the lesson applies the same. It’s adopted a behavior (mimicking P.rey’s mating signal) BECAUSE it misleads P.rey. This adoption can be termed “deception”, and once P.rey has adapted, continuing the behavior is less effective (but not zero, or P.redator would evolve not to pay the cost of the signal).
The impact side of deception is of course not binary. P.rey has a strong mating signal before P.redator takes advantage of it, but even after adaptation, P.rey now only has a weaker signal available. P.redator’s behavior continues to add noise, even after P.rey “knows” about the lie.
Is the common-usage of “deception” equivalant to “injected noise with a causal tie from conflicting beliefs”? Perhaps—I haven’t deeply considered counter-examples, and I’d like to add in the concept that if the deceiver is more powerful than the victim (can model the victim, and/or adapt faster), the deception is more than just noise, it’s actually negative information.
I like the attempt to separate intent from effect. I don’t think you’ve quite succeeded in this, though—you probably need new words—“deceptive”, “lie”, and the like are VERY entangled with common social judgement and signaling (which themselves are often map-manipulating uses).
It may also help to separate intent/causality of behavior at different times. P.redator is, presumably, evolved rather than using a cognitive model, but the lesson applies the same. It’s adopted a behavior (mimicking P.rey’s mating signal) BECAUSE it misleads P.rey. This adoption can be termed “deception”, and once P.rey has adapted, continuing the behavior is less effective (but not zero, or P.redator would evolve not to pay the cost of the signal).
The impact side of deception is of course not binary. P.rey has a strong mating signal before P.redator takes advantage of it, but even after adaptation, P.rey now only has a weaker signal available. P.redator’s behavior continues to add noise, even after P.rey “knows” about the lie.
Is the common-usage of “deception” equivalant to “injected noise with a causal tie from conflicting beliefs”? Perhaps—I haven’t deeply considered counter-examples, and I’d like to add in the concept that if the deceiver is more powerful than the victim (can model the victim, and/or adapt faster), the deception is more than just noise, it’s actually negative information.