I like your analogy of belief systems as packages. My specific point,
though, was that some of these belief systems actually constitute
non-biological life forms. They even have reproductive systems
("evangelism", etc.). These are belief systems which manipulate whatever
package management system we humans have built into our hardware to further
their own reproductive ends. If we make an artificial mind similar enough
to our own, then it may itself be susceptible to some of these
manipulations and be infected. On the other hand, if we make them
dissimilar enough, say by building in a strong enough bias for fact
checking through evidential validation, we may end up with a situation
similar to that between Windows and Linux: one is constantly being hacked
and infected, while the other is (relatively) immune, possibly because the
system is more robust, but if for no other reason, because the parasite is
optimized towards the more widely available host.On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Logan Streondj <weyou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Aaron brings up a good point, that some belief-systems are so common, they > deserve to have their own taxonomic classification. > > Similarly to how we reproduce tools, and technology, we also reproduce > belief-systems. > > So some of the main families of belief-system I propose as follows. > > Animism > -> Shamanism > -> Panpsychism > -> Witchcraft > Hinduistic > -> Jain > -> Vishnu/Krishna > -> Buddhism > Abrahamic > -> Judaic > -> Christianus > -> Islam > Philosophic > -> Stoic > -> Skeptic > -> Pragmatic > Judicial > -> Enforcers > -> Court Law > -> Political Law > > meh w/e anyways guess it would take too long.. > > Guess The Point I was trying to get across, is that everyone has a belief > system. Even if they are atheist, or w/e. > > Eventually in AGI's it may be possible to install and remove such belief > system with some kind of package management system. > > Belief systems are simply a set of inter-related statements, little > program packages. > > Logan Streondj > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Aaron Hosford <hosfor...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> We need a bio-Latin name for religion so we can fit it into the taxonomic >> tree. Maybe mens parasitus, of the family ratiocinativae. There would of >> course be different subspecies: mens parasitus >> Christus, mens parasitus Mahamedus, etc. And we could have another >> genus/species, computatrum parasitus, devoted to computer viruses. Then we >> can start treating the mathematical expression of what god's existence >> means to us in terms of the mathematical tools of epidemiology and >> population dynamics. I mean, come on! We're dealing with a whole new >> "kingdom of life" here! Isn't it about time someone studied it as such? >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:38 PM, John G. Rose <johnr...@polyplexic.com>wrote: >> >>> Hey Jim,**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> If you replace all your references to God with a G(x) or say a G(od) >>> that would at least get some of these people thinking (with the exception >>> maybe of Tintner). They can’t grasp what God is mathematically as they >>> dwell on the existence of a proof of God’s existence not God as a >>> mathematical expression of what his existence means to us and AGI better >>> have some idea of what God is otherwise it’ll think we’re all p-zombies... >>> and that might not go so well… hint hint...**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> John**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *From:* Jim Bromer [mailto:jimbro...@gmail.com] >>> **** >>> >>> The theoretical objects are:**** >>> >>> 1. God**** >>> >>> 2. Me, inspired by God according to my conjecture.**** >>> >>> 3. A computer program that I would be able to write if I had/have been.* >>> *** >>> >>> **** >>> *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> >>> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/23050605-2da819ff> | >>> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription >>> <http://www.listbox.com> >>> >> >> *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/5037279-a88c7a6d> | >> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription >> <http://www.listbox.com> >> > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/23050605-2da819ff> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
