34 – Lies, All Lies!

Slate Star Codex article – You Kant Dismiss Universalizability Wikipedia page on the Revelation Principle Eliezer’s post on LessWrong – Ends Don’t Justify Means (Among Humans) Another LessWrong post – Protected From Myself Louis CK bit on Lying (1:46 seconds long) Short book by Sam Harris on Lying (six minute preview of audiobook) Scott Alexander post on LessWrong – The Worst Argument in the World The Prevalence of Lying in America: Three Studies of Self-Reported Lies Kim B. Serota, Timothy R. Levine, & Franklin J. Boster https://msu.edu/~levinet/Serota_etal2010.pdf * Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 July 2009 comment on Not Technically Lying by Psychohistorian http://lesswrong.com/lw/11y/not_technically_lying/wew * Are animals capable of deception or empathy? Implications for animal consciousness and animal welfare S Kuczaj, K Tranel, M Trone, H Hill Animal Welfare. Special Issue 10:161- 173 (2001) * Comadena, Mark E. “Accuracy in detecting deception: Intimate and friendship relationships.” Annals of the International Communication Association 6.1 (1982): 446-472. Comadena’s study finds that friends & spouses have better deception rates than acquaintances, but friends have better deception rates than spouses. So, it’s more like closeness helps your lie-detection ability up to a point, but past that point of closeness, it starts to hurt instead of help. Some other studies show no significant difference between detection rates of strangers vs people in close relationships