On Sun, May 21, 2023, 21:33 James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > > The thing that put me off about your approach -- which I admit to not > having comprehended well enough to criticize -- was not its focus on > propositional logic (which is proper) but rather that I didn't > *immediately* see where *attribution aka provenance* fit into > phenomenology. In the example I like to trot out on these occasions: If a > company produces thermometers that are all 1C off and one is trying to make > sense of a bunch of physics data from a variety of sources, it is important > to reify the identity of that company that may be *latent in the data*. > Why? Isn't the reason obvious? This is where the entire ML field is off > in left field in their premature concern about *algorithmic bias* which > places normative *values* about what *ought* to be the case (ie: "Don't > say anything racist.") above truth discovery. >
Sorry about the late reply. By racism I mean mainly in a business setting where someone is treated or rewarded differently than can be accounted for by his/her merits. If someone tells the truth, it is not considered racist. We can say that African Americans tend to have lower IQ and that's a statistical fact, at least based on some data from the 1990s. We're not forbidden to state these facts. This does not go against the practice of meritocracy; Telling the truth is compatible with meritocracy. Another point I want to make is that many people are in denial of the fact that America has some systematic racial bias in their policies towards people from different countries. For the US to admit such a fault may cause them to lose their global hegemony privilege status. And then nowadays more people are willing to admit that the American empire is in decline, but then they look for a better future in the form of communism and they look towards China with admiration. That's very disturbing to me as they don't know what's actually happening in China. You may be tired of the capitalist rat-race and you think you want a milder form of competition, and you don't mind getting a bit poorer. But that's not China. In China, envy has become the highest moral standard. You cannot be successful, be rich, be smart, or solve problems with your wits because that will draw the jealousy of others. You have to be dumb like everyone else. In politics, everyone tries to pretend to be holier than thou, but there's no real meaning in this game, its logic is absurd. And no one can call this out because most people have lost the ability to tell right from wrong. This is the logical conclusion of communism. You cannot have a "milder" form of it, unless you accept that competition is part of life and evolution. Cheers 😄🍻 ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Te3d0dad0e74ec301-M6853e86589b2bae23a7c43b3 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
