In my opinion, "God" and "I don't know" is basically the same thing with different wording. It just the name for the collection of knowledge that are not being understand yet.
Putting "God" as a placeholder is fine. After all, that what humanity did in the past. On 23 January 2015 at 08:07, Steve Richfield via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/26900135-6658af2e> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- 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
