On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 10:19 AM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Truth is whatever makes the best predictions. ...The problem is that > different people have different evidence. If I flip a coin and peek at the > outcome, then my p(heads) is different from your p(heads). > That counsel of despair works only up to the point that some folks, otherwise ready to kill each other over their strongly held beliefs, decided to agree on a set of data subject to the lossless compression criterion for causal model selection. At that point, even if those folks decide that their _real_ differences aren't over what "IS" but over what "OUGHT" to be the case, they will have more options to avoid negative sum conflict than do the rest of humanity. At _that_ point, the "political" factions will, in fact, be the scientific faction and the morons. Guess who wins? ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T206dd0e37a9e7407-M3e1bc74117bb36553135fce7 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
