{"id":687,"date":"2025-06-08T02:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T23:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2025-06-08T02:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T23:39:40","slug":"687","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted has-system-sans-serif-font-family\">I don't remember if I ever conducted it on anyone, but I do remember devising a test of honesty in middle school. I hated most of the authors we were forced to read. But some may've been so particularly bad they inspired to create this test.<br><br>\"Be good! Because being good\u2014is good. That's an insightful quote, don't you think? Leo Tolstoy wrote it.\"<br><br>I'd say this to my test subject and watch their reaction. If they responded with something like \"Nah brother, that's a literal pile of dog poo. Am I being tested? Find a better quote to muse upon,\" I'd know they are being honest with me. But if they responded with \"Yeah, that's... really smart. Really makes you think about... life and stuff,\" I'd know they are just being polite or didn't even hear what I said\u2014being dishonest in one way or another.<br><br>I was such a pure, naive kid! I really thought it was a question of honesty and not cognitive capacity. I didn't realize most humans were as braindead as those quotes and the authors we were forced to read.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember if I ever conducted it on anyone, but I do remember devising a test of honesty in middle school. I hated most of the authors we were forced to read. But some may&#8217;ve been so particularly bad they inspired to create this test.&#8221;Be good! Because being good\u2014is good. That&#8217;s an insightful quote, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}