Mike, On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Mike Archbold via AGI <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was reading an article a few months ago from my philosophy news feed > that talked about using god as the fallback explanation if you don't > have an explanation for whatever ready to go! In other words, > lacking a proper cause, the default is god. It seems like "I don't > know what the cause is" would be better, though. NO!!! Why? Because God presumes a complex functionality with nearly infinite intelligence, which in most cases is MUCH closer to the truth than simply "I don't know." Steve ============= > So, agnostic. Mike > A > > > On 1/22/15, Piaget Modeler via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > > For an AGI system, would "God" be an efficient placeholder for the > "unknown > > cause" of an event or situation? It seems that this is what some people > do > > when faced with inexplicable situations that their mental model is not > > sufficient to generate an otherwise plausible hypothesis? And would > this be > > a slippery slope? > > On the other hand, police detectives, when investigating a murder seem to > > have some model of human action and causes of death. I don't think they > put > > "God" as a placeholder for the cause of a death in a particular case. > > When teaching an AGI, will the world we explain to the AGI be full of > > unknowns or knowns? > > Thoughts? > > ~PM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > AGI > > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/11943661-d9279dae > > Modify Your Subscription: > > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10443978-6f4c28ac > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Full employment can be had with the stoke of a pen. Simply institute a six hour workday. That will easily create enough new jobs to bring back full employment. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
