The Study of Lies — The Latin word for lie is mendacio. In English that old word still exists in the word “mendacity” and it floats about in other languages too, like Spanish. The study of lies might naturally be called Mendaciology. Imagine a world with a course, if not a degree, in Mendaciology. The…

The science of lies is a cognitive science. René Descartes (1596–1650 AD) of Cartesian Coordinates fame, e.g. “(x,y)”, was the father of cognitive science. Seeking the nature of truth, he said “I think therefore I am.” …

Believe it or not there is a science of lies. The science basically says we all lie all the time to someone. Brains just don't work the way you might suppose. Here is what we know by the science you can confirm for yourself: Fiat Lies are Genocide on the Human Race The Internet Court of Liesmedium.com Big lies work for politicians because…

Robert Thibadeau, Ph.D. November 30, 1993 — I never thought I would see the day When books looked superfluous. I saw, the day before yesterday, The world. I leapt about, from Japan, to Here, to Australia To Finland, To Italy. Like it was nothing. And I…

Very nice story. This would be a great article for students or scholars in computational cognitive neuroscience. In fact, I'm going on Twitter to Tweet it to Elon and the Twitterverse. The question, as a scientist, is "how would this work?" We pretty much know there is no shot or…

On my second read: Thanks Frank. Great article! Except this sentence which disturbed me. So I tried to ask ChatGPT but now they want money, so I Asked Bard: Yes, Shangdu was real. It was the summer capital of the Mongol Empire located in Inner Mongolia, northern China. It was…

We probably already know the answer to this. Modern language models for NLP all associate every word with a vector and each entry is a dimension. These vector values are what most fundamentally get learned in training. Their purpose is to predict the next word encountered or a word between…

The policy of empathy is called democracy. Here is the full definition of "why democracy" from 1940. You might find it interesting. The knife or flower sweeps in all directions. https://medium.com/liecatcher/why-democracy-928725232ba1?sk=0af9e40e0245c004f4d9accfd8b140f8

I suggest you read this (and pass it on). It convinced a lot of people 80 years ago. This is a free friends link. https://medium.com/liecatcher/why-democracy-928725232ba1?sk=0af9e40e0245c004f4d9accfd8b140f8