From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Oct 04 1999 - 21:16:34 MDT
Dan Fabulich wrote:
>
> 'What is your name?' 'Eliezer S. Yudkowsky.' 'IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT
> YOUR NAME IS!!!':
Anyone tries pulling "stupid Vorlon tricks" on me, the next iteration
they get "I don't exist, so I don't have a name." Let 'em deal with that.
> > I have yet to see any non-anthropomorphic philosophy other than my
> > own, which is also anthropomorphic. Hence my skepticism.
>
> You're using the word "anthropomorphic" in a manner quite different from
> how I normally see it used. Could you flesh that out a little more?
Anthropomorphic: Shaped by man. Any pattern caused by features which
are unique to humanity, as opposed to (level one) biological sentience
in general, (level two) mortal sentience in general, (level three)
sentience in general, or (level four) the truth.
I try for level two philosophies, maybe verging on level three every now
and then. Most philosophies are entirely level zero - you couldn't walk
up to a random alien race (even a mortal evolved race) and explain them.
I try for philosophies that can be explained to AIs. But they still
assume some basic facets of human/AI/mortal cognition, so my theories
are still anthropomorphic; they're just anthropomorphic on a much lower level.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://pobox.com/~sentience/tmol-faq/meaningoflife.html
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