gwern comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 11 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 19 March 2012 08:41:36PM 2 points [-]

If IRL we discovered a really reliable neurological lie detector, it would be used by police and courts, but do you really think politicians and CEOs would ever submit to it?

I'd expect some CEOs would submit to it and their stock would be rewarded for it.

Comment author: Jello_Raptor 20 March 2012 02:35:12AM 2 points [-]

To boot, I would be very surprised if people elected politicians who hadn't submitted to the lie detector after it had the cultural time to sink in.

People with foresight would work very hard to discredit it before that happened though.

Comment author: loserthree 20 March 2012 04:04:40PM 1 point [-]

We might not know if they already had.

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