“When in total ignorance, try anything and you will be less ignorant.”
-- G.Harry Stine, A Matter of Metalaw
You can never knowingly follow that advice, because if you knew you were in total ignorance, your ignorance would be less than total ;).
Yes, but you can at least knowingly commit to following the advice. Build a robot that detects whether you are in total ignorance, and takes a random action if so. Then forget about the robot.
But a robot that one has forgotten about taking a random action for some forgotten reason isn’t likely to reduce one’s state of ignorance.
“When in total ignorance, try anything and you will be less ignorant.”
-- G.Harry Stine, A Matter of Metalaw
You can never knowingly follow that advice, because if you knew you were in total ignorance, your ignorance would be less than total ;).
Yes, but you can at least knowingly commit to following the advice. Build a robot that detects whether you are in total ignorance, and takes a random action if so. Then forget about the robot.
But a robot that one has forgotten about taking a random action for some forgotten reason isn’t likely to reduce one’s state of ignorance.