Goodreads asked Paul H. Raymer:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Paul H. Raymer Recalculating Truth sprang up out of thinking about trials. The judge and the jury have to listen to witnesses tell their version of some story. Then they have to apply the law. Wouldn't it be simpler to just have a machine that knew all the laws and could access them instantaneously and at the same time determine if the witness was telling the truth? We wouldn't need juries and we should be able to get perfect judgements every time!
The more I researched it though, the scarier it became. A lot of the stuff in the book is really happening. Some of the organizations that make equipment to read human tells are pretty scarey. And the fact is that we don't always want to know the truth.

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