What—and have them so they don’t trigger even on outrageous falsehoods? That sounds as though it would be a dubious plan. Isn’t determining when people are lying to you an important skill? I can put up with a few false positives—and that seems preferable to missing deceptions.
Yeah— and what gives that Einstein guy the right to make me imagine riding a beam of light? That’s outrageously impossible— he must be trying to make me attempt lightspeed travel so that I’ll die!
Or the journalistic ethics counterfactual “What if you found conclusive evidence that the Diary of Anne Frank was a fake?”— the ethics professor must be a neo-Nazi!
Then you might want to recalibrate your deception-detection heuristics.
What—and have them so they don’t trigger even on outrageous falsehoods? That sounds as though it would be a dubious plan. Isn’t determining when people are lying to you an important skill? I can put up with a few false positives—and that seems preferable to missing deceptions.
Maybe just so they don’t trigger on outrageous counterfactuals.
Yeah— and what gives that Einstein guy the right to make me imagine riding a beam of light? That’s outrageously impossible— he must be trying to make me attempt lightspeed travel so that I’ll die!
Or the journalistic ethics counterfactual “What if you found conclusive evidence that the Diary of Anne Frank was a fake?”— the ethics professor must be a neo-Nazi!