From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 15:27:00 MDT
> Robin Hanson wrote:
>>
>> We are obviously getting pretty speculative here, trying to estimate
>> which computations are more or less costly for our distant
>> descendants. My intuition is that it shouldn't be that hard to
>> verify what data structures are used for choosing ordinary actions,
>> and it should be much harder to verify that the process of choosing
>> those beliefs is unbiased. But my computation intuitions are not as
>> good as they once were (having been away from it for a while); I'm
>> interested to hear what other folks' intuitions say.
>
### The process for choosing ordinary beliefs is dependent on a large amount
of data collected during phylogeny, as well as some input from ontogeny over
many years. As such, it is the expression of adaptation to prevailing
conditions. How would you then define "bias" in this context? What would be
the meaning of a fully non-biased approach to formation of beliefs?
Rafal
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