{"id":532,"date":"2017-11-26T14:29:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T14:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emaren.com\/?p=532"},"modified":"2023-03-27T10:51:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T09:51:25","slug":"growing-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/growing-proof\/","title":{"rendered":"The growing need for proof…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In this ever connected world, it is pretty easy for anyone to say anything or to be anybody.<\/p>\n

In the real world, you can tell a lie and as long as the person that you told it to does not have the ability to easily debunk it, you can get away with it for a very long time.<\/p>\n

‘Oh yeah, I met so-and-so at $vague-venue in vague-year’ \u00a0is pretty much impossible to prove or disprove and in general the onus lies on the recipient to prove or disprove, or to just accept and wonder.<\/p>\n

Obviously the liar has to remember all of these lies and this requires either a brilliant recall of the lies that have been told to who, or it required that liar to simply not care.<\/p>\n

In the real world a liar has just the stories to bolster their ego.<\/p>\n

Of course there are some famous cases of people telling lies and getting away with it for year, but in general it is pretty easy to catch out a liar in real life.<\/p>\n

The on-line world though makes it way more difficult and potentially a whole lot more dangerous, but I would like to propose a system that helps to catch people out.<\/p>\n

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Consider this lie in a WhatsApp group conversation.<\/p>\n