If Pinocchio’s nose detected absolute truth, then there really should have been a subplot in the story about people who want to kidnap him and pose him questions to determine the ultimate nature of the universe.
Ha ha ha.
Mad Computer Scientist: “And now, Pinocchio, I would like to you to assert that ‘P=NP’.”
Ha ha ha. Mad Computer Scientist: “And now, Pinocchio, I would like to you to assert that ‘P=NP’.”
(I was just primed by reading this.)