humpolec comments on Rationalist Clue - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tesseract 08 January 2011 06:40:04PM 4 points [-]

I'm pretty sure the point of the lie detector that it conveys essentially no information. Real lie detectors are notoriously unreliable.

I thought it was a nice touch.

Comment author: humpolec 08 January 2011 06:48:47PM 2 points [-]

I imagine the "stress table" is just a threshold value, and dice roll result is unknown. This way, stress is weak evidence for lying.

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