Ah, but of course he would say that, wouldn't he, for the good of humanity! The beauty of the argument is it gives everyone who witnessed the event a very stro

Ah, but of course he would say that, wouldn't he, for the good of humanity! The beauty of the argument is it gives everyone who witnessed the event a very strong motive to lie about it, so it's effectively un-falsifiable. I don't actually think it happened that way, but nothing Eliezer says (apart from that he cheated some other way) would be incompatible with the argument. Small world, by the way.