> What if the "honest" signal of intelligence is the ability to detect bullshit? In machine learning research, we have the idea of adversarial algorithms. One

> What if the "honest" signal of intelligence is the ability to detect bullshit? In machine learning research, we have the idea of adversarial algorithms. One algorithm tries to generate convincing bullshit, and the other algorithm tries to differentiate this bullshit compared to the real thing. Resources are spent equally on improving both sides, to the benefit of the larger system. Perhaps human evolution does the same. People get better at bullshitting to navigate social structures in a more efficient way, and other people get better at calling bullshit to prevent people from navigating those structures TOO efficiently. Makes sense to me.