On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:52 AM, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Why in the world would a intelligent agent need to be certain before it >> could act? >> > > > Perhaps because it has not (and never will) arrive upon a correct belief > system (religion) > So you believe anything that anybody thinks is important is a religion. So if you can't show that belief in God is imbecilic then simply redefine the English words "God" and "religion" until they are so general and so vague that they are utterly useless and completely unrelated to common usage. Nevertheless I must admit that if we change the English language so that "God" means a big fuzzy vague blob, and "religion" means stuff I think is important, then I believe in God and I am religious. But then of course there would be 2 big holes in the language so you'd have to invent 2 new words to cover the old meanings of "God" and "religion". > > on which to make value-judgements > I don't need to make a value judgement nor do I need a belief system, correct or otherwise, to know that the sensation I receive when I stick my hand into a fire is unpleasant; for most people the same would be true of experiencing the death of their child. I need no proof that these things are unpleasant , I know them by direct experience. > > to score outcomes of its possible actions. > So the more intelligent you are the less you'd care about probabilities?? That makes no sense. John K Clark > > > Jason > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
