I don’t actually find the results thaaaaat surprising or crazy. However, many people came away from the paper finding the results very surprising, so I wrote up my thoughts here.
Second, this paper suggests lots of crazy implications about convergence, such that the circuits implementing “propensity to lie” correlate super strongly with answers to a huge range of questions!
Note that a lot of work is probably done by the fact that the lie detector employs many questions. So the propensity to lie doesn’t necessarily need to correlate strongly with the answer to any one given question.
I don’t actually find the results thaaaaat surprising or crazy. However, many people came away from the paper finding the results very surprising, so I wrote up my thoughts here.
Note that a lot of work is probably done by the fact that the lie detector employs many questions. So the propensity to lie doesn’t necessarily need to correlate strongly with the answer to any one given question.