Re: FYI: Truth machines for sale

Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
04 Mar 1998 18:02:56 +0100


Steve VanSickle <sjvan@csd.uwm.edu> writes:

> How about this from Feb 23, 1998 Aviation Week and Space Technology (aka
> AvLeak):
>
> Previously Secret NSA Techniques Now Available to Private Sector

Another polygraph. The big problem with these is that there is no
universal relationship between deception and arousal level. I'm quite
certain that given a bit of training practically everyone could defeat
or confuse the readings. Not to mention the problem of dealing with
sociopaths, whose arousal levels are largely disconnected from their
cognitive state.

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