From: J. Maxwell Legg (income@ihug.co.nz)
Date: Fri Aug 14 1998 - 19:44:48 MDT
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> [Hal]
> > Robin Hanson has an interesting argument that factual
> > disagreements should not persist. However I think it
> > took as one of its premises that people believe that
> > others are basically rational. If that is the case then
> > over time people should modify their beliefs in the face
> > of persistent disagreement. Disagreements about factual
> > matters should not be stable.
>
> > What if people hold the contrary belief, that there are
> > significant numbers of other people who are stubbornly
> > irrational? It would seem that we might have a stable
> > outcome similar to what we actually see: people collecting
> > into subgroups with shared opinions, where they believe
> > other members of their group are rational (at least on this
> > issue!). However the existence of significant groups with
> > other opinions does not lead them to change their ideas
> > because they simply assume that the others are irrational.
>
> I cannot speak for others, but I certainly hold the latter
> belief myself--that the vast majority of humans on Earth
> are indeed stubbornly irrational, and that I am a better
> judge of facts than even the most educated ("education" as
> practiced today, after all, is merely indoctrination into
> the currently popular prejudices).
>
> Not only would that serve to stabilize disagreeing factions,
> but also the fact that there exists a vast cosmos of facts
> that are simply unknowable/untestable with present technology,
> for which reason--even perfect reason--simply cannot supply
> answers. Every discovery that answers a question creates 10
> more questions, so there is a vast universe of ignorance with
> only a few specks of knowledge that reason can verify. I see
> no reason why disagreement about facts in that great unknown
> should cause any discomfort to reasonable people.
How is can it be then, that I percieve a single unifying software
concept? By visiting my webpage you are helping create enough critical
mass to make my view a universal concept. Some in my field feel that
such technology should only be used for rational leadership, but I
disagree. Only by including the irrational can the hidden layers be
exposed for the occult corruption that they are. Be warned: - this
website is not for thin skinned economists.
Sorry to intrude on this thread in this way but you should understand my
long field of perception in this area makes it very dificult at times
for me to get across what I mean. At this website is the bud of the
technology that you say doesn't exist. There is software you can
download there to balance the individual hemispheres of both rational
and irrational complete story worlds that can coexist in an ever
elevating stasis. I believe Ingrid can toggle each of these components
inside a feedback multilayed grid. Ingrid has already been demonstrated
on this list in that short NSPIC debate on this list last year; - backed
up here.
Ingrid is a rep-grid freeware offer to Kellian constructivists- who make
inferences about meanings by looking at the relationship between
constructs. Parallel Ingrid will not use a dendritic pruning method but
will use Principle Component Analysis and will therefore be able to
replay secret scenarios when that situation arises. This is radical
constructivism at its finest.
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FYI, I'm taking Ingrid into the field of Internet promotions to support
the gossip dance party scene, here in Auckland NZ. Right now through the
admiring support of local NZ agents, Playboy BMG, we are into our second
sponsor's party and we are going after the 20-30yr female market. With
the Playboy Online Live theme, we're seeing what happens when a woman to
woman network, using an Ingrid projection, steps in to control the night
scene. There's also a strange mix of Palm Pilot boyfriends, alcohol and
a mock gangster party smokeasy.
"This is the new world of PLAYBOY – produced, directed and starring
women. Also starring as a woman, and to be included as a member of this
group is a computer program that its author {me} claims is the essence
of a woman's mind, a transhuman called Ingrid. http://come.to/ingrid to
meet a personification of the mathematics of female intuition, lovingly
called Ingrid, and you will meet her in an oasis of glamour filled with
a wealth of entertainment."
ciao,
j.
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> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and
> past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used
> for any purpose without permission, attribution, or notification."
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