There are some who are more horny for truth. And the test of a truth is typically its ability to hold one’s desires more than what else they’d be horny for.
A spirit of truth spoke via Zarathustra and via Lao Tzu. And this message was received in a fashion “tainted” or more charitably “colored” by its medium.
Both Saoshiyant and Li Hong represent this coloration.
To one who views these as approximate truths, filtered through the hand of the humans delivering them, this issue poses no problem at all.
(The pun three paragraphs ago was not intended by the human delivering this message.)
The truth-seeking machine’s fatal flaw is however also the existence of this coloration. A lie which satisfies this part of oneself will appear more truthy than a truth which does not.
As Phoebe Buffay once said, “People will believe anything you tell them if it’s a compliment.”
The drive which may become horny for truth or a bigger number or a bigger pair of breasts finds its satisfaction in the belief that it has done its job well. And its sensitivity is not only inconsistent between individuals but may be trained differently and in some cases intentionally modulated, by one who has learned how to do so.
One cannot live and die by their critics.
That being said the single most effective tactic to hold on to a non-truth
is to develop a thick skin which sheds from itself all criticisms
which might lead one towards the truth.
A lie which enhances reproductive satisfaction is precisely the sort of lie which may be kept alive as truth using the same tools which all humans necessarily must use to instantiate a persistent self constituting more than simply the sum of all perspectives spoken by other selves.
A truth which is overly naked in its articulation might fail to be received by a “cogito ego sum” which is horny for something other than what the speakers is.
Such a truth may only be suggested.