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People do already exist with these needs. The current community. All of whom will suffer if there's no succeeding generation. I agree. Procreation sho...
July 17, 2022 at 17:26
Virtually all humans thrive on the company of others. The greatest harms we suffer are ostracisation and loneliness, far greater than any physical har...
July 17, 2022 at 17:21
So your first clashes with your second. Your objective is unachievable. You might as well toss a coin.
July 17, 2022 at 17:12
You talk about meaning, I'm talking about good. Two different objectives. What is meaningful is fine being subjective. We can each make our own choice...
July 17, 2022 at 17:11
It's perfectly clear. I'm asking exactly the same of you as you just asked of me. The citations from which you've derived your view. If you don't unde...
July 17, 2022 at 17:00
Nothing. 'Seeing' is a process of inference. Nothing is seen directly. Everything that is seen is seen indirectly. It's not a direct process, it has s...
July 17, 2022 at 16:58
This is the one I'm asking about. And... ... Why? Are these just spontaneous feeling you have, not derived from any deeper objective? They seem, no of...
July 17, 2022 at 16:56
How does that concern affect the decision to procreate? Is non-procreation more truthful? And how does that assist the search for truth?
July 17, 2022 at 15:29
I've just given three examples in which the subject of observation is the hidden state. As I said, why don't we start with the papers from which you'v...
July 17, 2022 at 15:27
Then what is your chief concern? So you don't breathe, eat or move then? You are never inactive, so you're always doing. The choice is over what to do...
July 17, 2022 at 14:23
First mention, first paper. It is the hidden states which are being inferred by the process in question (in this case 'seeing') ie what we 'see' is th...
July 17, 2022 at 14:20
You've not demonstrated that being certain one's actions don't cause irreversible harm before acting minimises harm to others though. The inaction res...
July 17, 2022 at 13:54
We don't. As I said in the other thread, if you're going to start saying that 'direct' requires no intervening data nodes, then we do not 'directly' e...
July 17, 2022 at 13:04
See the papers I cited earlier. Or any papers on inference systems.
July 17, 2022 at 12:21
This is simply not possible (where 'internal' applies to some self-organsing system). To recognise a system, a self organising one, there has to be an...
July 17, 2022 at 12:19
Why? You just keep repeating arbitrary rules without basing them on any potentially shared objectives. We don't just follow rules for no reason.
July 17, 2022 at 12:06
"Expand", maybe. "Replace" is what I'm less convinced by. Indeed, but not told us that words we've been using for one purpose are 'wrong'. Correct use...
July 17, 2022 at 11:39
Yes, I agree. There's no point in reducing harm just for the sake of following some rule about reducing harm. We usually weigh predicted harms and ben...
July 17, 2022 at 11:31
Ah, then we're using two different meanings of 'hidden states' which is causing the confusion. I'm using hidden states in its technical sense with reg...
July 17, 2022 at 11:01
Why?
July 17, 2022 at 08:44
Yes, clearly. One does not otherwise know the outcome in advance and cannot match it to one's intention. Morality is about what we ought to to. It is ...
July 17, 2022 at 08:32
Because that would involve omniscience and none of us are. Well then you're not using the word 'moral' correctly. The degree of prior certainty you're...
July 17, 2022 at 08:16
One cannot have both, so you've made moral action impossible. Thus the word 'moral' becomes pointless. I suggest, therefore we find it new use - perha...
July 17, 2022 at 08:08
Yes, I think one can reason badly about the courses of action which would most benefit the community and ignoring individual welfare would be one such...
July 17, 2022 at 08:03
It's the basis of my argument against anti-natalism. One only need a reasonable belief that one's child will not suffer greatly for any small sufferin...
July 17, 2022 at 07:54
True. It's a consideration one ought to take into account. My preferred solution to the unknown consequences problem is to consider ethics about virtu...
July 17, 2022 at 07:50
By it, the simplest justification for having a child is that it will do more to improve the welfare of one's community (including the future child) th...
July 17, 2022 at 07:38
Good odds is the requirement, not the justification. One cannot reasonably justify having a child on the basis of good odds that they'll be happy alon...
July 17, 2022 at 07:29
Yes. NU is as bizarre a ethic as any. Why would we eliminate harm with no-one around to enjoy their harm-free life? One might as well have an ethic ar...
July 17, 2022 at 07:27
I agree to an extent, but one has to have careful limits if one is to do that and I think those limits create an asymmetry. Looking at just utility we...
July 17, 2022 at 07:19
I have a lot of sympathy for this view, it's basically the same as my own, but I'd quibble with the word 'reality'. I don't think we use the word 'rea...
July 17, 2022 at 07:12
I agree. I cannot for the life of me think why arguments against anti-natalism always seem to descend into this particular lunacy. It is obvious that ...
July 17, 2022 at 07:03
No. That was my point (reductio ad absurdum, I believe it's called?). That's not how we use the word 'know'. We use the word 'know' to refer to succes...
July 17, 2022 at 06:53
Not how I use the word reason. If you're talking about purpose, then fine. The purpose of neurons is not to represent the outside world. We know this ...
July 17, 2022 at 06:39
Then the hidden state would be whatever lay outside whatever nodes you had as the new Markov boundary. The existence of hidden states is just a mathem...
July 17, 2022 at 06:34
You were talking about perception. If you're now talking about the future, then no, I don't think we can know the future (in general). I'm claiming we...
July 17, 2022 at 06:17
The hidden state is not a future state, it's a current one.
July 16, 2022 at 20:31
Nothing non-serious about it. If you want to say we don't actually 'know' a hidden state because all we 'really' have access to is our inference about...
July 16, 2022 at 19:24
That's really interesting, thanks. Did you ever read the article here... https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1059712319862774 ...where Frist...
July 16, 2022 at 19:19
Well, if we're not 'overstating', you only know what you currently remember about what happened when you tested the model. All thought is post hoc by ...
July 16, 2022 at 19:14
Glad you liked them. It's rich ground for study. It's from a stock of image links I have. It'll be from a paper, but I don't know which, I'm afraid. T...
July 16, 2022 at 19:11
Depends on the context the words are used in. I don't hold with 'strictly speaking' when it comes to definitions. Words mean whatever they're successf...
July 16, 2022 at 17:51
@"Banno". Found it. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10066600/1/Friston_Variational%20ecology%20and%20the%20physics%20of%20sentient%20systems_Pro...
July 16, 2022 at 12:25
I don't need premises. I don't consider ants have bank accounts. I don't consider atoms have feelings. I can't for the life of me think why anyone wou...
July 16, 2022 at 12:06
Not at all, it predicts cognitive bias in those unaware of the issue and less so in those aware of it. Easily falsifiable by showing a general lack of...
July 16, 2022 at 08:47
Uh huh. And which part of the published theory on cherry-picking predicted that would not happen?
July 16, 2022 at 08:30
Indeed. But the theory behind clickbait never said anything like "and even knowing about this won't change the model" so the actual psychological theo...
July 16, 2022 at 08:14
Well, no. In the first instance, psychology's replication rate is similar (marginally better, in fact) to medicine. Do you refuse medical treatment? B...
July 16, 2022 at 08:06
Have they? Or was it the counterculture in the 60s very few of whom had even picked up Freud? Besides which, has that rendered Freud's theories false?...
July 16, 2022 at 07:46
Absolutely. But do they actually change mental practices in any way which then falsifies the theory. Are these people actually thinking in a meaningfu...
July 16, 2022 at 07:40