The actual reason why we lied in the second message was “we were in a rush and forgot.”
My recollection is we sent the same message to the majority group because:
Treating it different would require special-casing it and that would have taken more effort.
If selectors of different virtues had received a different messages, we wouldn’t be able to have a properly compared their behavior.
[At least in my mind], this was a game/test and when playing games you lie to people in the context of the game to make things work. Alternatively, it’s like how scientific experimenters mislead subjects for the sake of the study.
Yeah I find the ‘you want to keep the message consistent for Science’ argument convincing (but think it’s good to still stick with the most reasonable interpretation of what our word was that we can, unless we have a specific reason not to that a reasonable number of nonteammates agree makes sense.)
My recollection is we sent the same message to the majority group because:
Treating it different would require special-casing it and that would have taken more effort.
If selectors of different virtues had received a different messages, we wouldn’t be able to have a properly compared their behavior.
[At least in my mind], this was a game/test and when playing games you lie to people in the context of the game to make things work. Alternatively, it’s like how scientific experimenters mislead subjects for the sake of the study.
Yeah I find the ‘you want to keep the message consistent for Science’ argument convincing (but think it’s good to still stick with the most reasonable interpretation of what our word was that we can, unless we have a specific reason not to that a reasonable number of nonteammates agree makes sense.)