Experimental psychologists spend their working lives devising empirical tests for questions like these.
One way for Alice to test her theory would be to find a fact that people had motivation to lie about, and see whether their public or private statements were more likely to represent the truth.
Experimental psychologists spend their working lives devising empirical tests for questions like these.
One way for Alice to test her theory would be to find a fact that people had motivation to lie about, and see whether their public or private statements were more likely to represent the truth.
Experimental psychologists start with (roughly) the same theory of mind that other humans do.
See also my comment here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kMJxwCZ4mc9w4ezbs/how-an-alien-theory-of-mind-might-be-unlearnable?commentId=iPitpgNxwJH2e98CK