From: Richard Loosemore (rpwl@lightlink.com)
Date: Fri May 12 2006 - 07:33:38 MDT
Joshua Fox wrote:
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>> .... the way that some people apply their theories of human
>> irrationality to the larger processes of cognition (in this case,
>> judgments of future scenarios), and come to conclusions as if teh
>> Conjunction Fallacy, and the general lack of logical reasoning skills,
>> were the main determinants in those analyses.
> Because flaws in rationality such as the Conjunction Fallacy are not
> explicitly adaptive to the human evolutionary environment, might it be
> that these are necessary side-effects of practical General Intelligence?
> Every design requires compromise in some parameters, and perhaps this is
> an /essential /compromise for the first generation of AGI.
Joshua,
Just for the record: Eliezer did not write the above comments: I did.
Sadly, I am no longer engaging in discussions on this list. I have
wasted too much time trying to pursue meaningful discussion of AGI, only
to find myself fighting the irrationality of a small but noisy clique
who belong to the Bayesian Rationality religion/cult/pseudoscience.
Richard Loosemore
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