On 12 May 2014, at 00:56, LizR wrote:
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> I think you could tell that the article was almost certainly
worthless from the title alone because it is asking the wrong
question. There is a vastly better question, Is Intelligence
Computable?
> OK, although I am not sure a question can be wrong.
A question can be badly defined. For example, who is the king of
France?
If there is a king of France, I am the king of France, I think. By
Classical Propositional Calculus, assuming there is no king of France.
Well, no! ... some people pretend that there *is* a king of France,
even two, already, but not (yet?) recognized, or re-installed. In
France, some people do disagree on who is the king of France, I heard
once.
Or are unicorns pink?
Those on our planet seems to be both pink and not pink.
Or have you stopped beating your wife?
No. I didn't.
She loves that.
The submissive person is the main ruler, you know.
On the other hand, beating people is a poorly convincing argument, and
only an evidence that you are the bad person.
Unless you play with sexual phantasm and in that case all rules are
permitted between adults as long as there is mutual consent, and
respect of the neighbors and the usual social duties.
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I get your point Liz. There is no wrong question, but yes, there are
question badly formulated, and even question which create the problem,
etc. Some polls are racists. The drug "problem" is an example where
"seeing a problem" *is* the problem.
Bruno
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