I am trying to understand this issue... Isn't "Causality Decision Theory" the basis of legal law Decision?
Someone was the Cause of the accident therefore they were the Cause of the accident... even some courts award based upon the mediating circumstances of those causes... Who gets what part of the blame? The factors within any given Knowledge base are causal for the expert opinions and the level of any AI system using that knowledge base. The classical example was given in medical knowledge... When the patent is bleeding, attach a tourniquet between the blood loss wound and the heart... If the subject is bleeding from the leg or foot, apply tourniquet to upper part of leg. If the subject is bleeding from the arm, apply the tourniquet above the wound. If the subject is bleeding from the head apply the tourniquet around the neck... woops that logic has dire causal consequences... but it does stop blood loss.... I can't breath!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dan Goe ---------------------------------------------------- >From : Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To : agi@v2.listbox.com Subject : Re: [agi] Re: Superrationality Date : Fri, 26 May 2006 08:05:16 -0400 > > Not the baby-halving threat, actually. > > > > http://www.geocities.com/eganamit/NoCDT.pdf > > > > Here "Solomon's Problem" is referred to as "The Smoking Lesion", but the > > formulation is equivalent. > > Thanks for the reference. The paper is entertaining, in that both the > theories presented (evidential decision theory and causal decision > theory) are patently very stupid right from the outset ;-) > > EDT's foolishness is more mathematical in nature (via setting up the > problem mathematically in a way that ignores relevant information) > whereas CDT's foolishness is more philosophical in nature > (essentially, via introducing the folk-psychology notion of > "causality" which has no role in rigorous formal analyses of events). > > I really think this stuff is not that complicated; but people seem to > be misled in thinking about it via commonplace illusions related to > "free will" ... > > more later > ben > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
