Let me extend half an apology if I overstepped. I say "half" because my
criticism was not really so much personal, as against a whole approach - of
many AI-ers generally - which really is extraordinarily callow. There is a
simply vast amount of human misery and suffering, which centres on people's
difficulties in handling emotions - substance abuse of all kinds - obesity,
alcoholism, heavy drugtaking, medicated drugs etc etc. Add it up and you
find that virtually all of us have a substance abuse problem of some kind or
other. And all of us have immense and continuous difficulties handling our
emotions in a whole variety of additional ways.They do torture us. There is
more to it than simply difficulty with emotions, but that's the centre.
(There is also a great amount, but considerably less, of human joy and
happiness etc).
To try and reduce all this to numbers is - if unintentionally - also very
offensive, far far more so than any remark of mine, and does indeed involve
v. false, limited ideas of emotions (and limited in terms of AGI).
P.S. I obviously hurt your (& possibly Matt's) feelings - would you be
happy to put your emotions and your entire post down as a "-6" for utility,
and leave it at that? :)
Mike D: Mike T:>> It also shows a very limited understanding of emotions.
What do you hope to convey by making comments like this?....what right
does that give any individual to denounce
another?
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