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by Tade0 2194 days ago
As a kid I was a compulsive liar and would make up non-existent stories.

With the advent of search engines I discovered that any story I can come up with actually happened somewhere in the world and has an article about it already.

2 comments

Sounds like a Gettier problem / Gettier case [0]

Example: Fake barn county. You're driving in a county and see lots of barns. You point to one and say "that's a barn". Unbeknownst to you, almost all the barns are not barns but are facades. By accident you actually are pointing at one of the few real barns.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem

Hence, everyone is wrong and right at the same time, citation needed of course.