From: Alan Grimes (alangrimes@starpower.net)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 16:17:12 MST
Psy-Kosh wrote:
> > > unFriendly to not take them. Since the Sysop is an un
>>> anthropomorphic SI of some sort, it should be able to make an
>>> objective judgment of what is more right.
> > --- PHILISOPHICAL ERROR ---
> > RIGHTESS IS PURELY ARBITRARY AND SUBJECTIVE!
> --ERROR--
> The objective judgement would be in terms of Friendlines, not
> necceserally generic subjective "rightness", but a specific framework
> which has already been defined.
In a completely arbitrary and subjective way. ;)
> Second, please show that rightness is purely arbitrary and subjective.
> I recognize that it is possible that it is such, but, afaik, it has not
> been shown to a high degree of probability to be such.
Well, we are talking about rightess as in good/bad rather than
correct/incorrect. It all comes down to the question "What do you want?"
You see, good and bad are entirely subjective. Once we have defined
these as axioms, we can derive courses of actions from there...
I have already said that what is defined as friendliness is pathalogical
at best, suffocating at worst...
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