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If somebody invented smart glasses that detected lying, how do you think the public would react? (lemmy.world)
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This is hypothetical - the glasses don't fact-check what people say, they somehow detect willful deception, like people expect polygraphs to do, but with high accuracy. Would people welcome these, fear them, object on privacy grounds? I think it would be very contentious. Would people feel different if they only fed the information to the wearer but didn't record or send it anywhere? What exactly would the issues be?

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[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

I read a book around 10 years ago that convinced me that lying is almost never justifiable even when it comes to white lies and I've pretty much not ever lied since. And I'm not talking about radical honesty - not lying means not saying things that you know to be untrue, not that I always tell everything that's on my mind.

Few observations that have came from this experiment:

  • Most people lie constantly in situations that they wouldn't need to and they don't even realize it.
  • The cartoon examples people think of about situations where you're forced to tell an uncomfortable truth almost never happen.
  • People can't wait to brag about how good of an liar they are when the lie has been directed at a 3rd person - not realizing that gets them immediately labled as untrustworhy in my eyes.
  • Not lying to others also makes it more difficult to lie to yourself and forces you to face your bullshit
  • Most people absolutely hate for anyone to even suggest taking lying away from their toolkit (see this thread)
[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I read a book

share?

I strive for honestly in almost all things. I have a few relationships where honesty doesn't really work unless I want them to become very stressed out - innocuous inquiries like 'how are things?' <surveys the hellscape of our national politics/ society / ai etc.> they're dealing with dementia already, I can't be honest in these kinds of interactions.

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Lying by Sam Harris

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I agree with these points, but you should talk to the other person here who said without lies civilization would collapse in a couple minutes. Quite the spectrum of beliefs.

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 1 points 15 hours ago

I don't necessarily disagree with them. There are people who have built their entire work and social life on lies. Pulling that rug out from under them at this point would cause it all to spectacularly collapse.

However, if everyone's lies were suddenly exposed, hardly anyone would have any ground to stand on from which to criticize others - people would discover that everyone is full of shit.