Do you not place much weight on the “Elephant in the brain” hypothesis? Under that hypothesis, humans lie all the time. The small part of us that is our conscious personas believes the justifications it gives, which makes us think “humans are quite honest”. I mostly buy this view, so I’m not too confident that our learning algorithms provide evidence for lying being uncommon.
But I feel like the “humans have a powerful universal learning algorithm” view might not mix well with the “Elephant in the brain” hypothesis as it is commonly understood. Though I haven’t fully thought out that idea.
Do you not place much weight on the “Elephant in the brain” hypothesis? Under that hypothesis, humans lie all the time. The small part of us that is our conscious personas believes the justifications it gives, which makes us think “humans are quite honest”. I mostly buy this view, so I’m not too confident that our learning algorithms provide evidence for lying being uncommon.
But I feel like the “humans have a powerful universal learning algorithm” view might not mix well with the “Elephant in the brain” hypothesis as it is commonly understood. Though I haven’t fully thought out that idea.