Don Fallis: Poker, Deception, and the Limits of Truth

Philosopher Don Fallis didn't start out studying lies. He started trying to understand how we find the truth. From library science and disinformation research, Don found himself at the edge of a deeper question: what happens to knowledge when the world is designed to stop you from getting it? In this free-flowing conversation, Don walks us through what it really means to lie and why defining it is harder than it sounds. Along the way, Descartes' deceiving demon starts to look a lot like a modern con artist, pop culture becomes an unexpected training ground for spotting deception and Wikipedia, that forbidden source from every syllabus, may have been more trustworthy than our teachers let on. As AI makes it cheaper to fake something than to make the real version, Don brings it all back to a question that feels more urgent than ever: should we accept that all human knowledge is a little bit fallible and what do we do with that?