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Even intelligent humans can be caught lying because they are not logically omniscient, may overlook how their actions expose them, and find it difficult to maintain an inconsistent false model of the world.
Dwarkesh Patel · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“it just seems with even smart humans they get caught in weird ways because they don't have logical omniscience they don't realize the consequences of the way they did something just obviously gave them away and there is this with lying there is this thing where it's just really hard to keep an inconsistent false world model”Play from 1:26:07Report a misattribution
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