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Re:How technology could kill the art of lying by tormeh on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @06:09PM (#9854944)
Socially: Admitting you were wrong makes you look incompetent. If you were wrong then, why should anyone listen to you now?

Physiologically: Changing ingrained opinions on which many others are formed probably requires a good deal of brain re-wiring and may require solid plasticity. I'm unsure how much of a problem this is for the brain.

I guess there are a lot of other costs, but I can't come up with more.

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Re:How technology could kill the art of lying by ggchappell on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @07:54PM (#9855397)
> Admitting you were wrong makes you look incompetent.

It certainly makes you feel like you look incompetent. I wonder how much it makes others judge you as incompetent. Perhaps this issue has been researched? (I'm guessing that it might matter a great deal how one was wrong; there are different ways to be wrong, and different levels of wrongness.)

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