Perplexed comments on Rationality Quotes: March 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Perplexed 13 March 2011 01:32:17AM 3 points [-]

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

Quoted in the chapter on bounded rationality and the Revelation Principle in "Computational Aspects of Preference Aggregation" (.pdf) - an award winning 2006 PhD. Dissertation in AI by Vincent Conitzer.