On 1/22/15 9:04 PM, Alex Fok via AGI wrote: > 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.
Say what? That humanity did X in the past in no way says doing X was or is reasonable. People thought there where weather spirits too. Does that mean it is ok to do so now? "I don't know" is a statement of epistemological uncertainty about something in particular. "God" is a statement of certainty about a purported particular quite peculiarly defined existent. It is not at all a fit for label for what we don't have reasonable epistemological certainty about in general. This is sheer nonsense. > > On 23 January 2015 at 08:07, Steve Richfield via AGI <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Mike, > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Mike Archbold via AGI > <[email protected] <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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 > [Powered by Listbox] <http://www.listbox.com> > > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/2997756-fc0b9b09> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription [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/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
