Peterdjones comments on You can't signal to rubes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peterdjones 02 January 2013 05:33:17AM 0 points [-]

" If many animals in a group send too many dishonest signals, then their entire signalling system will collapse, leading to much poorer fitness of the group as a whole. Every dishonest signal weakens the integrity of the signalling system, and thus weakens the fitness of the group."

Do you conclude from that tha lying is extremely rare in human society?

Comment author: Patrick 02 January 2013 05:43:10AM 1 point [-]

No. I think that because lying is common in human society, a credible signal must be costly to liars.