So one, so can you, can you talk about, uh, about why, you know, why people, um, uh, you know, why people are easily duped, uh, by, uh, by people who are engaging in effortful deception?

Uh, sure.

Um, so the basic idea of truth default theory is that honesty's the default mode of communication.

We're honest unless we have a reason not to.

We have to have a deceptive motive, unless we're pathological, and we accept what other people say at face value unless we have a reason for skepticism or doubt, which I call a trigger.

So there has to be...

So you and I are talking, if we weren't talking about deception, it would never even come to mind, uh, that I'm really Professor Levine that or not, that, um, right? We just accept stuff at face value, and it has to be this because otherwise communication doesn't work.

And you're omitting ev- you're m- omitting every example of a person who had a hairpiece that did fool you because they don't make it into your mental dataset.