Juno_Watt comments on Epistemic Viciousness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Juno_Watt 28 September 2013 01:09:16PM 0 points [-]

My Favorite Liar. Tell people that you're going to make X deliberately incorrect statements every training session and they've got to catch them.

I can think of only one example of someone who actually did this, and that was someone generally classed a a mystic.

Comment author: arundelo 28 September 2013 04:57:33PM 3 points [-]

Yvain got the name of this technique from Kai Chang's "My Favorite Liar", about an economics professor who did this.