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		rdiddly on March 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How can you tell if someone is lying? The best liars, like the best actors, actually believe what they're saying though, so I don't think false confidence is the answer.

wildermuthn on March 28, 2021 [–]

That's my point, though. A lie-detector tries to do the impossible. A false-confidence assessor only does what it claims to do.

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