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From: "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: smart people doing stupid things
Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 10:18:41 -0400
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"Don Y" <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote in message 
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> On 5/17/2024 9:49 PM, Edward Rawde wrote:
>> "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:v29bqi$14iv$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com...
>>> "Don Y" <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote in message
>>> news:v29aso$2kjfs$1@dont-email.me...
>>>> On 5/17/2024 7:11 PM, Edward Rawde wrote:
>>>>> "Don Y" <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote in message
>>>>> news:v28rap$2e811$3@dont-email.me...
>>>>>> On 5/17/2024 1:43 PM, Edward Rawde wrote:
>>>>>>> Not sure how he managed to say master debaters that many times while
>>>>>>> seemingly keeping a straight face but it reminds me of this:
>>>>>>> https://www.learningmethods.com/downloads/pdf/james.alcock--the.belief.engine.pdf
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One thing which bothers me about AI is that if it's like us but way
>>>>>>> more
>>>>>>> intelligent than us then...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The 'I' in AI doesn't refer to the same sense of "intelligence" that
>>>>>> you are imagining.
>>>>>
>>>>> Strange that you could know what I was imagining.
>>>>
>>>> People are invariably mislead by thinking that there is "intelligence"
>>>> involved in the technology.  If there is intelligence, then there 
>>>> should
>>>> be *reason*, right?  If there is reason, then I should be able to 
>>>> inquire
>>>> as to what, specifically, those reasons were for any "decision"/choice
>>>> that is made.
>>
>> What is a decision?
>
> Any option to take one fork vs. another.

So a decision is a decision.
Shouldn't a decision be that which causes a specific fork to be chosen?
In other words the current state of a system leads it to produce a specific 
future state?

I don't claim to know what a decision is but I think it's interesting that 
it seems to be one of those questions everyone knows the answer to until 
they're asked.

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