RE: Donaldson, Tegmark and AGI

From: Amara D. Angelica (amara@kurzweilai.net)
Date: Sun Aug 13 2006 - 09:32:31 MDT


Very interesting discussion. "Singularity" does seems to have a powerful
religious function that could influence cognitve functions:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect> Bandwagon effect,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_blind_spot> Bias blind spot,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_perception> Selective perception,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring> Anchoring,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguity_effect> Ambiguity effect,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_bias> Anthropic bias,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic> Availability
heuristic, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief_Overkill> Belief Overkill,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_illusion> Clustering illusion,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overconfidence_effect> Overconfidence effect,
and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_outcome_bias_%28prediction%29>
Positive outcome bias (prediction).
 
Russell, could you expand on "my purpose here is to offer an alternative"?



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