Unfortunately this only works if you have perfect knowledge of blackmailers and cannot be fooled by one who pretends to be less intelligent than they actually are.
Not perfect knowledge, just some knowledge together with awareness that you can’t reason from it in certain otherwise applicable heuristic ways because of the incentives to deceive.
Can I take it that since you criticized a criticism of this hypothesis without offering a criticism of your own, that you believe that this hypothesis is correct?
My comment was entirely local, targeting a popular argument that demands perfect knowledge where any knowledge would suffice, similarly to the rhetoric device of demanding absolute certainty where you were already presented with plenty of evidence.
It’s evidence that you have seen the comment that he’s replying to, in which I lay out my hypothesis for the answer to your original question. (You’ve provided an answer which seems incomplete.)
Not perfect knowledge, just some knowledge together with awareness that you can’t reason from it in certain otherwise applicable heuristic ways because of the incentives to deceive.
Yes, that’s what I meant. I have a bad habit of saying ‘perfect knowledge’ where I mean ‘enough knowledge’.
Can I take it that since you criticized a criticism of this hypothesis without offering a criticism of your own, that you believe that this hypothesis is correct?
What hypothesis?
My comment was entirely local, targeting a popular argument that demands perfect knowledge where any knowledge would suffice, similarly to the rhetoric device of demanding absolute certainty where you were already presented with plenty of evidence.
It’s evidence that you have seen the comment that he’s replying to, in which I lay out my hypothesis for the answer to your original question. (You’ve provided an answer which seems incomplete.)