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Comment author: asciilifeform 18 June 2009 02:32:43PM 2 points [-]

intelligence doesn't necessarily have anything to do with our capacity to detect lies

Do you actually believe this?

Comment author: Annoyance 18 June 2009 02:46:44PM 0 points [-]

Yep.

Higher intelligence implies a greater capacity to work out the logical consequences of assertions and thus potentially detect inconsistencies between two assertions or an assertion and an action.

It doesn't imply that people will have the drive to look for such contradictions, or that such a detected contradiction will be interpreted properly, nor does it imply that it will be useful at detecting lies without logical contradictions.