Tuesday, March 18, 2025

The Two Liars Problem

Imagine that two psychopaths, representing two nations, meet to make a treaty.  Neither man has ever told the truth in his life. In fact, they do not understand what regular people mean by "truth."

By psycho standards, whether a sentence is true or false depends on what they fancy at a given moment. (For the rest of us, a sentence is true if it can be validated by evidence etc.)

I don't see how two psychopaths can agree on meaningful sentences. The meanings will shift too rapidly.  A treaty they sign will mean everything and nothing.  





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