KPJ wrote:
>
> You appear to enter the Debate Mode. This normally indicates that I have
> somehow triggered the meme system into self-protection. Sorry about that.
> It appears as if "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> wrote:
> |
> |I see. So, in other words, you're walking a totally predetermined
> |trajectory where your current meme system determines the meme system
> |you'll adopt next. (As adjusted for your innate instincts, of course.)
>
> Ahh, the old question of Free Will pops up.
Not in the slightest. There are people who follow predetermined walks with respect to their opinions; we call it "blind faith", not "Free Opinion".
> Personally I use the meme system of scientific exploration called rational
> empirism. This system defines "truth" as the model matching the outer world
> and checks the truth value of the model by making experiments. I understand
> it has been rather successful during the last centuries.
But you don't use that meme system to determine the truth of supergoals, only of opinions and subgoals. I use that meme system to determine what I do as well as what I say.
-- sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://pobox.com/~sentience/AI_design.temp.html http://pobox.com/~sentience/sing_analysis.html Disclaimer: Unless otherwise specified, I'm not telling you everything I think I know.