Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!umd5!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!TAURUS.BITNET!shani From: shani@TAURUS.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: More Free Will Message-ID: <749@taurus.BITNET> Date: 30 May 88 09:29:38 GMT References: <3200017@uiucdcsm> <532@wsccs.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Organization: Tel-Aviv Univesity Math and CS school, Israel Lines: 31 In article <532@wsccs.UUCP>, dharvey@wsccs.BITNET writes: > If free will has created civilization as we know it, then it must be > accepted with mixed emotions. This means that Hitler, Stalin, some of > the Catholic Popes during the middle ages and others have created a > great deal of havoc that was not good. One of the prime reasons for AI > is to perhaps develop systems that prevent things like this from > happening. If we with our free will (you said it, not me) can't seem to > create a decent world to live in, perhaps a machine without free will > operating within prescribed boundaries may do a better job. We sure > haven't done too well. Oh no! wer'e back where we started! Gee! I think that the problem with weather this world is decent or not is in your misconception, not with the system. The whole point (Which I said more then once, I think) is that THERE ISN'T SUCH A THING LIKE OBJECTIVE GOOD OR OBJECTIVE EVIL OR OBJECTIVE ANY VALUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! because anything that is objective is completly indifferent to our values and other meanings that we human beings give to things! Therfore, HOW ON EARTH can AI define things that does not exist?!?!?! Hmm... on second thought, you may use AI to detect self-contradicting ideas, but realy, it doesn't worth the mony as you can do that with a bit of common sense... your all idea seem to mean that people will have to accept things only because the machin have said this... how do you know that the bad guys will not use false machines to mislead the innosence and poor again??? How about investing in making PEOPLE think, instead??? O.S.