On 11 June 2014 04:35, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: > On 09 Jun 2014, at 19:13, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: > > Ok good point > > Justice and revenge are human inventions > > Oooooh... That looks like a human belief. >
I may have been too hasty. They're almost certainly evolutionary inventions. > > I am afraid that the justice problem haunts many Löbian machines and > Löbian gods (Non Turing effective set of beliefs, or numbers). > > Please elaborate! > I am sure there are zoologists and anthropologists, who would have oodles > of observed behavior for the former. Justice is rarely objective, however > better tech may render our species better choices. This is an optimistic > guess. > > Justice is when the laws are applied equally to all citizens. > > If a law is unapplicable or unjust, well you can still write a book and > suggest changing a law. > > Justice, like truth are ideal concepts, or guiding concepts. Pain also, in > teaching us what to avoid, it can guide to what is better. > > Justice is not necessarily about punishment or revenge, but of restauring > trust in the references. > > If you are raped by the local priest regularly since some times, justice > is already there a little bit when it stops. > > Like in the health, we have only that: harm reduction. Tiny improvements. > Of course when bandits take or influence powers, "harm reduction" is > presented as tolerance which is not well seen those days. > > Hmm. I will have to think about that. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
