On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Faustine wrote:
> Bah. I say it depends entirely on what the lie is, who's being lied to, and
> how confident and artistic the confidence artists are.
> If they were good enough (and their targets comfortable enough), all three
> could be lying their asses off about anything and nobody would ever be the
> wiser. Likewise, with three or more targets playing it the other direction.
There is a time factor involved. Inconsistencies must accumulate. And I'm
not sure the problem applies to somebody who WANTS to be lied to as you
posit by implication with your extension. There is an implicit 'critical'
factor in the original problem as posed, we assume no cooperation between
-all- the players, there is at least one 'honest' one.
The game where there is one honest player is -not- the same game as no
honest players.
Changing the rules in the middle of the game will -almost always- allow
one to manipulate the discussion to a desired goal. But then again there
goes that -critical- factor in such a co-operative environment. Thank
goodness this isn't one of those ;)
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