Deception

TagLast edit: 16 Sep 2021 14:40 UTC by plex

Deception is the act of sharing information in a way which intentionally misleads others.

Related Pages: Honesty, Meta-Honesty, Self-Deception, Simulacrum Levels

Algorithms of Deception!

Zack_M_Davis19 Oct 2019 18:04 UTC

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Maybe Lying Can’t Exist?!

Zack_M_Davis23 Aug 2020 0:36 UTC

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On hiding the source of knowledge

jessicata26 Jan 2020 2:48 UTC

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(unstableontology.com)

Notes on Honesty

David_Gross28 Oct 2020 0:54 UTC

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LCDT, A Myopic Decision Theory

adamShimi and evhub

3 Aug 2021 22:41 UTC

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Deconfusing Deception

Jemist29 Jan 2022 16:43 UTC

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Firming Up Not-Lying Around Its Edge-Cases Is Less Broadly Useful Than One Might Initially Think

Zack_M_Davis27 Dec 2019 5:09 UTC

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Optimized Propaganda with Bayesian Networks: Comment on “Articulating Lay Theories Through Graphical Models”

Zack_M_Davis29 Jun 2020 2:45 UTC

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Maybe Lying Doesn’t Exist

Zack_M_Davis14 Oct 2019 7:04 UTC

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Can crimes be discussed literally?

Benquo22 Mar 2020 20:17 UTC

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(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Don’t Double-Crux With Suicide Rock

Zack_M_Davis1 Jan 2020 19:02 UTC

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“Rationalizing” and “Sitting Bolt Upright in Alarm.”

Raemon8 Jul 2019 20:34 UTC

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“On Bullshit” and “On Truth,” by Harry Frankfurt

Callmesalticidae28 Aug 2020 0:44 UTC

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Less Wrong Poetry Corner: Coventry Patmore’s “Magna Est Veritas”

Zack_M_Davis30 Jan 2021 5:16 UTC

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Overconfidence is Deceit

Duncan_Sabien17 Feb 2021 10:45 UTC

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Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception

Zack_M_Davis8 Jan 2021 20:54 UTC

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Communication Requires Common Interests or Differential Signal Costs

Zack_M_Davis26 Mar 2021 6:41 UTC

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[Book Review] “Houdini on Magic” by Harry Houdini

lsusr29 Sep 2021 2:37 UTC

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Comment on “Deception as Cooperation”

Zack_M_Davis27 Nov 2021 4:04 UTC

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On Bounded Distrust

Zvi3 Feb 2022 14:50 UTC

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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Everyone’s mired in the deepest confusion, some of the time?

M. Y. Zuo9 Feb 2022 2:53 UTC

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The Speed + Simplicity Prior is probably anti-deceptive

Yonadav Shavit27 Apr 2022 19:30 UTC

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An Increasingly Manipulative Newsfeed

Michaël Trazzi1 Jul 2019 15:26 UTC

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Cheerios: An “Untested New Drug”

MBlume15 May 2009 2:26 UTC

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How theism works

Paul Crowley10 Apr 2009 16:16 UTC

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Toy model of the AI control problem: animated version

Stuart_Armstrong10 Oct 2017 11:06 UTC

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Dishonest Update Reporting

Zvi4 May 2019 14:10 UTC

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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

White Lies

ChrisHallquist8 Feb 2014 1:20 UTC

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Are minimal circuits deceptive?

evhub7 Sep 2019 18:11 UTC

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Will transparency help catch deception? Perhaps not

Matthew Barnett4 Nov 2019 20:52 UTC

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Plausibly, almost every powerful algorithm would be manipulative

Stuart_Armstrong6 Feb 2020 11:50 UTC

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Why artificial optimism?

jessicata15 Jul 2019 21:41 UTC

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(unstableontology.com)

Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Oct 2008 23:39 UTC

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Knowing I’m Being Tricked is Barely Enough

Elizabeth26 Feb 2019 17:50 UTC

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(acesounderglass.com)

Not Technically Lying

Psychohistorian4 Jul 2009 18:40 UTC

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Sex, Lies, and Dexamethasone

Jacob Falkovich20 Feb 2018 19:56 UTC

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Attention! Financial scam targeting Less Wrong users

Viliam_Bur14 May 2016 17:38 UTC

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If we can’t lie to others, we will lie to ourselves

paulfchristiano26 Nov 2016 22:29 UTC

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(sideways-view.com)

Universality Unwrapped

adamShimi21 Aug 2020 18:53 UTC

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Superintelligence 11: The treacherous turn

KatjaGrace25 Nov 2014 2:00 UTC

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Functional silence: communication that minimizes change of receiver’s beliefs

chaosmage12 Feb 2019 21:32 UTC

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Of Lies and Black Swan Blowups

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Apr 2009 18:26 UTC

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Corrigibility thoughts III: manipulating versus deceiving

Stuart_Armstrong18 Jan 2017 15:57 UTC

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Blatant lies are the best kind!

Benquo3 Jul 2019 20:45 UTC

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(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

[LINK] EA Has A Lying Problem

Benquo11 Jan 2017 22:31 UTC

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(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Matching donation fundraisers can be harmfully dishonest.

Benquo11 Nov 2016 21:05 UTC

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Misleading the witness

Bo1020109 Aug 2009 20:13 UTC

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The Santa deception: how did it affect you?

Desrtopa20 Dec 2010 22:27 UTC

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Notes on Sincerity and such

David_Gross1 Dec 2020 5:09 UTC

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Why I’m Worried About AI

peterbarnett23 May 2022 21:13 UTC

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Gracefully correcting uncalibrated shame

Alex Flint11 May 2022 19:51 UTC

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Training Trace Priors

Adam Jermyn13 Jun 2022 14:22 UTC

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Multigate Priors

Adam Jermyn15 Jun 2022 19:30 UTC

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