From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Sep 17 1997 - 10:18:22 MDT
Bart Troyan wrote:
>
> Max More wrote:
> Is there a compact source of such points that I can use,
> and perhaps copy for my students? There are a bunch of
> creationists in the classes, so the more solid examples
> I have at hand the better.
TIERRA, which demonstrates complex evolution in a completely known environment
(inside a computer), should be an integral part of any demonstration.
http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray/pubs/tierra/tierrahtml.html
> I'm also curious about something--how can one justify having any sort of
> religious faith at all, if one takes a pancritical rationalist approach
> to existence?
Oh, come now, you should know better than that.
"How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg?"
"Four - calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
If God exists, then a fully informed pancritical rationalist would have
absolutely no choice but to believe in It.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/singularity.html
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/algernon.html
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise specified, I'm not telling you
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