Clifford Leong wrote: > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Mark Willis wrote: > > What we really need's a sensor that tells us when a public figure is > > lying or trying to mislead us; Imagine having your local reporters able > > to read micro muscle tensions and ask a politician 10-20 questions and > > determine the truth about any given issue. Or you being able to do the > > same to a potential mate. Now THAT, is a "Killer App." And we'll be > > able to do that, methinks... > > I think the Voigt-Kampff from Blade Runner needed 20-30 cross referenced > questions to detect Replicants, so if you can do 10-20, I'd say that's pretty > good. :) > > Cliff There's always the "when they're talking, they're lying" opinion, somewhat prevalent some places <G> I have a few friends who've learned to do this rather well (mostly unconscious training but partly conscious.) One game to try to learn how to do this is, with a partner, have them hide a coin in one hand; Practice guessing which hand. You might find you get better and better with practice. They're over 95% accurate, which is darn good IMO... Different people have different expertises, probably this comes easier to some. David Cantrell wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:09:03AM -0700, Mark Willis wrote: <snip> > There's an interesting sci-fi story I read "the truth machine" by James > Halperin. Available to buy and download from peanutpress.com :-) > > ObDisclaimer: no I don't work for them or anything. > > -- > David Cantrell || http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david > > I'm working on the assumption that chicks dig mad scientists (Love that assumption! <G>) Interesting. It'd sure change the way politics runs in this country, IMO; I think what'd happen though is that the bureaucrats'd set themselves up to take more power; ack. Bureaucrats love hiding behind walls we "mere" citizens cannot get through, nu? (Anyone else here know that in the US at least, before WW2 there for the most part was no bureaucracy in place in the US? The production demands of WW2 caused those to be put in place; since then there's been little personal responsibility in huge areas of government and IMO little need for bureaucracies; still they cling in place.) Mark -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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