I lied that I’ve already submitted one program detecting and crashing simulators. … I added another lie that the method of detecting simulators was my friend’s idea (hopefully suggesting that there is another contestant with the same method outside the clique). I’m curious how believable my lies were, I felt them to be pretty weak, hopefully it’s only because of my inside view.
I believed both of these lies, though if I’d come to rely on them at all I might have questioned them. But I assumed your friend was in the clique.
Yes, I feared that some might think my friend is in the clique. However I couldn’t just say that they are not in the clique, because that would have been too obvious. (like my other lie: “Yeah, I totally have another method for detecting being in a simulation even if the simulation runs in a separate process, but unfortunately I can’t reveal it.”) So I tried to imply it by speaking about him as if he is not in the conversation and him not commenting after I mentioned him. I hoped in case someone was planning to submit a simulator outside the clique they would try to sneakily inquire about whether my friend is in the clique or not and then I would have asked a random, not competing lesswronger to play the part of my friend.
I believed both of these lies, though if I’d come to rely on them at all I might have questioned them. But I assumed your friend was in the clique.
Yes, I feared that some might think my friend is in the clique. However I couldn’t just say that they are not in the clique, because that would have been too obvious. (like my other lie: “Yeah, I totally have another method for detecting being in a simulation even if the simulation runs in a separate process, but unfortunately I can’t reveal it.”) So I tried to imply it by speaking about him as if he is not in the conversation and him not commenting after I mentioned him. I hoped in case someone was planning to submit a simulator outside the clique they would try to sneakily inquire about whether my friend is in the clique or not and then I would have asked a random, not competing lesswronger to play the part of my friend.