Faustine wrote: > But what about when the unlucky charmers find they're actually the victims > of a deceivers-deceiving-the-deceivers-deceiving-the-deceivers > kind of thing. > What shows that the snowers know they've slowly been snowed? Bet > it keeps a lot > of people awake at night, that one. Tricky, but fascinating. If > anyone knows of > any good links to counter-deception detection, drop me a line. > Not sure how "on > topic" it is, but something everyone here would do well to read > about. Either > that, or just default to not trusting anyone, ever. Works for me.
I sent a silly "CYPHERPUNKS IQ TEST" to the list and received a ton of private replies. Very few selected one of the "available" answers. They constructed alternative answers....but also alternative contexts, observables and event streams, mostly in narrative. I didn't solicit them to tell me what wasn't there, or to summon what didn't exist. One psychological experiment presented a fault-tree to a group of mechanics. It listed possible reasons that a car wouldn't start. Say reasons 1-10, *out of 50 available.* After seeing the information presented like that, the mechanics were hard pressed to come up with more than a handful of additional alternatives -- when asked. I'm not suggesting that my "woman amongst the ferns" is the equivalent of that, but it could be suggestive. Some of these guys can call the jinn. ~Aimee
