Re: my current position (was: AUDA)

2002-01-15 Thread Marchal
Wei Dai wrote: Suppose someone offered you $1000, but if you accepted Earth would be destroyed and everyone on it killed as soon as you die. Would you take that offer? Even if you did I'm sure most people wouldn't. This is because I include in the first person its possible compassion feeling

Re: Finite time and infinite space

2002-01-15 Thread Matthieu Walraet
On 15 Jan 2002, at 11:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the things that strikes me as most peculiar and unexpected about the universe is this: that it is apparently finite and inhomogeneous in time, yet infinite and homogeneous in space. The universe is finite : My short term memory last

Re: Kiln People

2002-01-15 Thread hal
Wei writes: This brings up the question: Which measure is evolution making us try to maximize? The answer is none. It only appears that way because people who try to maximize their measures according to some measure function will tend to have large measures according to that measure function.

Re: my current position (was: AUDA)

2002-01-15 Thread Brent Meeker
Hello Wei On 15-Jan-02, Wei Dai wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:47:18PM +0100, Marchal wrote: This is because I include in the first person its possible compassion feeling for what are possible others. (This is similar to what Brent Meeker said in its last post). Compassion, although it