Viliam_Bur comments on Open Thread April 16 - April 22, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion
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Actually... yes.
More precisely, I would expect politicians to be good at lying for the goal of getting more personal power, because that's what the evolution has optimized humans for; and the politicians are here the experts among humans.
But I expect all humans, including politicians, to fail at maximizing utility when defined otherwise.