2008/11/18 Steve Richfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am considering putting up a web site to "filter the crazies" as follows, > and would appreciate all comments, suggestions, etc.
This all sounds peachy in principle, but I expect it would exclude virtually everyone except perhaps a few of the most diehard philosophers. I think most people have at least a few beliefs which cannot be strictly justified rationally, and that would include many AI researchers. Irrational or inconsistent beliefs originate from being an entity with finite resources - finite experience and finite processing power and time with which to analyze the data. Many people use quick lookups handed to them by individuals considered to be of higher social status, principally because they don't have time or inclination to investigate the issues directly themselves. "In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." - Mark Twain ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=120640061-aded06 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
