EricS wrote:
It feels to me like a second-order mechanism.  We normally cast the
purpose of lying as deception.  But here I think that’s not it.  The
intended purpose for the lie is only achieved when the lie is understood
  to be a lie by all involved.  Yet the form of lying is retained.
What’s the model of human “comprehension” and motivation in which the
fine structure of this would have been correctly predicted from our
picture of how things work?

a ritual of submission?  loyalists signal compliance while adversaries are cornered toward being shrill or in broken compliance.

semiotic sovereignty?  who gets to decide what "means".

in the metagame, lying is a demonstration of dominance not misdirection?  A gaming of active inference?

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