"Not actually true, or a lot of this would be a lot simpler; there's versions of the mistake that look coherent. When I 'trolled' you yesterday, I made up probabilities such that, if you predicted my trolling, which I mostly expected, that would appear to provide a big update in favor of you being a time-traveler, and then if you didn't predict my prediction, which I slightly expected you not to do, that would appear to provide a big update in favor of Conspiracy. Those numbers weren't honest but they were coherent, and you couldn't spot the error just from looking at the numbers themselves."
"It's also possible to overemphasize the degree to which all of this is, like, regulations that people make up to prevent each other from cheating. Math is simpler than people. This math is not about people. Sometimes, people are about this math. Sometimes, people try to cheat in a way that violates this math. But this math is not about preventing cheating. People who never felt any impulse to cheat would use the same math."
"I notice that people are starting to use 'dath ilani' to mean 'person using Law' or 'person using Law correctly', which is probably not a good loanword to add to Taldane? The term actually just means the people from the particular planet of dath ilan, while the whole point of the Law is that it's much more universal than that? Not to mention that a lot of us, and I don't just mean those of us who are five years old either, have been known to ever use the law incorrectly. Keepers aren't perfect at it either. We say 'ideal-agent' - maybe a Taldane translation would be perfect-simplified-person? - when we want to talk about a hypothetical mind that is stipulated to be using Law correctly. Kids in Civilization don't grow up hearing that dath ilani do this, dath ilani do that; they're told what ideal-agents do, or how well Nemamel did, or how high you've got to score to stay in the upper nineteen-twentieths of adults."