From: Ben Goertzel (ben@webmind.com)
Date: Sun Jan 28 2001 - 12:06:23 MST
Pointing to Buddhism was just a way of saying that friendliness, in humans,
does
not inevitably seem to have learning & knowledge creation as subgoals
Ben
> > Buddhism is a belief system in which compassion (friendliness)
> is key, but
> > learning & generation of knowledge are not considered important
>
> *Cough*Smullyan*cough*.
>
> Yes, Buddhism is a belief system which specifically steps out of its way
> to say that all apparent human accomplishments are transitory - though I
> do believe that individuals are still supposed to walk the path of
> enlightenment - which some believers could take as a commandment to
> suppress the innate human joy in learning and generation of knowledge.
> There are meme complexes that label-as-shameful survival, reproduction,
> wealth accumulation, laughter, eating... just about anything... what of
> it?
>
> -- -- -- -- --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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