anon895 comments on Exploiting the Typical Mind Fallacy for more accurate questioning? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 17 July 2012 05:35:55PM *  0 points [-]

Me too - my father thought it was a trap to detect dishonest answers, but from what I've read, giving the more absolute answers (for example, saying that procedures should always be followed) tends to get you a "better" score. If you want to game the test, pretend you're a naive robot who never, ever does anything even remotely bad, even if nobody actually acts like that.

See also.

Comment author: anon895 04 August 2012 06:41:59AM *  0 points [-]
Comment author: CronoDAS 05 August 2012 03:29:33AM 2 points [-]

Probably the latter.