Proto-Proposal: But what is truth?
(AI = 2, please)
Zefram and Goethe are co-authors of this proposal.
Change the power of Rule 2149 (Truthfulness) to 2, and amend it to read:
A person SHALL NOT make a public statement unless e reasonably
believes it is true, or else makes eir beliefs on the subject
reasonably clear.
For the purpose of this rule:
a) Merely quoting a statement does not constitute making
that statement.
b) Any conditional clause or other qualifier attached to a
statement constitutes part of the statement; the truth or
falsity of the whole is what is significant.
c) A public statement that one performs an action is true if
and only if one succeeds in performing that action by
making that public statement.
