Reminds me of Calvinism. It is predetermined whether you will go to Heaven or Hell but you'd better behave as if it isn't.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 4:35 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > < I once knew a very intelligent determinist who argued that punishment > was important nevertheless. It plays the same role as training for neural > nets. Even though the neural net mechanism is deterministic, it's useless > without training. Punishment, and more generally child-rearing and > education serve the same function for society. They make humans much more > valuable members. All that is fully compatible with determinism. > > > > > Later in the process the humans may be a bit better, but it couldn’t have > been any other way. Or, if one allows for true randomness, it could be > many ways, but none of them are controllable. > > > > Marcus > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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