ShadowElemental comments on Three Worlds Decide (5/8) - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 February 2009 09:14AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 30 January 2015 12:55:40AM 0 points [-]

Their biology does not permit otherwise.

Assuming they aren't lying about that.

Comment author: rkyeun 10 February 2015 05:18:29AM 0 points [-]

They can't be. Their thoughts are genetic. If one Superhappy attempted to lie to another, the other would read the lie, the intent to lie, the reason to lie, and the truth all in the same breath off the same allele. They don't have separate models of their minds to be deceived as humans do. They share parts of their actual minds. Lying would be literally unthinkable. They have no way to actually generate such a thought, because their thoughts are not abstractions but physical objects to be passed around like Mendelian marbles.

Comment author: MaxNanasy 17 June 2015 02:32:44AM 0 points [-]

... assuming they aren't lying about how their biology works