Bugmaster comments on White Lies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Bugmaster 10 February 2014 11:16:23PM 11 points [-]

I was at a meetup where we played the game Resistance, and one guy announced before the game began that he had a policy of never lying even when playing games like that.

That's exactly what I'd say too. And then, I'd commence the lying :-)

Comment author: tristanhaze 11 February 2014 04:37:11AM 11 points [-]

'Continue', you mean :-)

Comment author: Bugmaster 11 February 2014 05:31:33AM 0 points [-]

Heh. Indeed.

Comment author: ThisSpaceAvailable 16 February 2014 06:23:02AM 1 point [-]

The problem is that such a policy logically requires also making a pre-game commitment to not answering the question "Are you a spy?" and also to not answer a question logically equivalent, and then the player has to keep track of logical implications and equivalences throughout the game, which leads to much poorer gameplay.

Also, if one doesn't make such assurances, then any "lying" during the game is simply gameplay, but with the assurance being made outside of the game, any in-game lying becomes out-of-game lying.

Comment author: ntroPi 16 February 2014 08:30:11AM 0 points [-]

Wait, wait, has the game already started?

The start of the game may be undefined and whether a lie is couted as inside the game depends a lot on the players.

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