Robert Thibadeau
1 min readSep 26, 2021

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This is a very nice and important article. I have one additional point of contest with the point above.

Unfortunately, this doesn't exactly work. The brain is not a truth engine in any sense of absolute truth, and language is just a window on the brain that reflects this unfortunate scientific truth.

In my book on Lies, I suggest that we have different avatar settings so we can see information through various perspectives. For example, I suggest a scientist avatar...since I am a scientist. That avatar would look at most everything on the Internet and see lies everywhere. (e.g., wikipedia on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies). We do have active dialogue systems that succeed in keeping factual knowledge (i.e., wikipedia) but most conversation is not about that. Also suggested are what we have with genre of books that are labelled as fiction or non-fiction (and so forth). These labels are probably learnable by machine so can be suggested on any input to the Internet and be right most all the time.

Here is that book.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Your-Lies-Back-ebook/dp/B07Q2DNJJK/

Here is how the brain actually works and why we cannot cure lying or always detect it.

https://medium.com/liecatcher/spiking-the-brain-with-a-foul-2c61057ace6a?source=friends_link&sk=f7d29812b4764fb7a66a7f15c2a3085e

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Robert Thibadeau
Robert Thibadeau

Written by Robert Thibadeau

Carnegie Mellon University since 1979 — Cognitive Science, AI, Machine Learning, one of the founding Directors of the Robotics Institute. rht@brightplaza.com

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