Re: Nicq's Details was: Reason +/-Faith

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Dec 13 2000 - 06:43:17 MST


"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> writes:

> Justin Corwin wrote:
> >
> > as enjoyable and uplifting a story that is, i'm completely unable to find a
> > connection to your amatuer psychic exchange.
>
> The moral is that - as Calvin once said - I try to make everyone's day, or
> life, a little more surreal.

Lungfish to that.

(Seriously, I think the great Calvin's advice makes sense: try to keep
people's reality models flexible and critical by giving them
appropriate challenges. Not too much, not too little. Each learning
system needs its own learning rate schedule.)

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