Stefan_King comments on Just for fun - let's play a game. - Less Wrong

6 Post author: CronoDAS 17 April 2009 11:13PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 18 April 2009 11:16:42AM *  0 points [-]

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 20 April 2009 04:38:54AM 0 points [-]

Maybe we should modify the game so that the lie has to be the approximate opposite of something that's true? (Actual opposite when used in a logic class.)

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 20 April 2009 05:20:47PM 0 points [-]

My rule is a restriction to prevent an underwhelming reveal, not a heuristic for choosing good lies.

If you're interested in the subject of choosing good lies: All of your statements (whether they are truth or false) should be statements that are unlikely to describe a randomly chosen person. That's why the witchcraft one would not make a good truth or lie.

Comment author: Yvain 19 April 2009 05:20:52PM *  0 points [-]

My probabilities are: .1, .3, .2, .2, .2

Comment author: taw 18 April 2009 05:14:12PM 0 points [-]

In case people don't know that, hotornot scores are so heavily biased, so getting 9.6 is quite simple