Given that “lying” is a thing (a concept that people have, a type of action that people assign negative moral value to and sometimes punish), but not in this recent academic theoretical analysis, it seems that academia is still pretty far from being able to understand lying on a theoretical level. (Presumably a full analysis would involve a multi-player, multi-period game, where “morality” and “punishment” are important features, but such a game is too difficult to solve using current theory.) At least that’s the main takeaway I’m getting from this. Did you have some other important message that you wanted to send with this post, that I’m potentially missing?
Given that “lying” is a thing (a concept that people have, a type of action that people assign negative moral value to and sometimes punish), but not in this recent academic theoretical analysis, it seems that academia is still pretty far from being able to understand lying on a theoretical level. (Presumably a full analysis would involve a multi-player, multi-period game, where “morality” and “punishment” are important features, but such a game is too difficult to solve using current theory.) At least that’s the main takeaway I’m getting from this. Did you have some other important message that you wanted to send with this post, that I’m potentially missing?