Timeline for Theory of truth involving a virtual omniscient being
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| Oct 12 at 2:32 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | @SystemTheory right, I think people get carried away with this quest for truth, it is basically self-defeating. But it is easier to tell if something works or not (engineering) and whether it is good or not (health). We should solve those fully before trying for something more abstract. | |
| Oct 12 at 0:41 | comment | added | SystemTheory | @Scott Rowe I took a graduate level electrical engineering course called Expert Systems way back in 1990. I had to write a paper on Engineering Ethics, so I read Schaum's Outline, which said Ethics is the effort to answer two questions: What is good for life or in life? How should one act to cause the good? Humans ask these two questions and one other core question: Who do I want to be like? We want to be like (or not be like) some character(s) in the drama (e.g., Sidhartha becomes Buddha). I also learned that explicit knowledge, expressed in language, cannot describe implicit human knowledge. | |
| Oct 11 at 22:25 | history | edited | Idiosyncratic Soul | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 11 at 22:16 | history | edited | Idiosyncratic Soul | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 11 at 20:43 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | Clever AIs, you just can't trust the damn things. Give me a good human liar or idiot any day! :-) | |
| Oct 11 at 19:54 | comment | added | SystemTheory | Who evaluates the reliability of a human expert or the knowledge of an AI? There is no ultimate authority. I have been satified with google search for many years but now when a search query produces an AI Overview I must deliberately discount and ignore that portion of the search results or spend my scarce brain power to question its relevance or validity. I would much rather sort through articles with actual human authors and spend my brain power on that effort. In theory an AI can become more intelligent than any human expert but the community of human experts must evaluate and rank the AI. | |
| Oct 11 at 18:53 | history | answered | Idiosyncratic Soul | CC BY-SA 4.0 |