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Slate Star Codex article – You Kant Dismiss UniversalizabilityWikipedia page on the Revelation PrincipleEliezer’s post on LessWrong – Ends Don’t Justify Means (Among Humans)Another LessWrong post – Protected From MyselfLouis CK bit on Lying (Short book by Sam Harris on Lying (six minute preview of audiobook)Scott Alexander post on LessWrong – The Worst Argument in the WorldThe Prevalence of Lying in America: Three Studies of Self-Reported LiesKim B. Serota, Timothy R. Levine, & Franklin J. Bosterhttps://msu.edu/~levinet/Serota_etal2010.pdf?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss*Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 July 2009 comment on Not Technically Lying by Psychohistorianhttp://lesswrong.com/lw/11y/not_technically_lying/wew?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss*Are animals capable of deception or empathy? Implications for animal consciousness and animal welfareS Kuczaj, K Tranel, M Trone, H HillAnimal Welfare. Special Issue *Comadena, Mark E. “Accuracy in detecting deception: Intimate and friendship relationships.” Annals of the International Communication Association 6.1 (1982): 446-472.Comadena’s study finds that friends & spouses have better deception rates than acquaintances, but friends have better deception rates than spouses. So, it’s more like closeness helps your lie-detection ability up to a point, but past that point of closeness, it starts to hurt instead of help. Some other studies show no significant difference between detection rates of strangers vs people in close relationships

