Oh no. Eliezer, I have disagreed with you at times, but you have not actually disappointed me until this moment.
You should find that of all the people you know, none of them seem beyond criticism; they will always fail to live up to your ideal of perfection. That’s because there’s only one person whose job it is to live up to that ideal.
Not trying to evade your substantive criticism, just a side note.
But geez, I’m surprised you would criticize me for doing what a philosopher is supposed to do: study the situation to understand the question better, rather than make a definite answer to a question I don’t understand.
I never thought of myself as a philosopher. I just set out to debug the universe. I often have to do so using incomplete information. My motor actions do not have the luxury of vagueness, however I caveat my “answers”. If you think my philosophical dilemmas are vague, you should see the problem descriptions Nature hands me.
The people who filled in their own assumptions and stated a preference were acting courageously; they exposed themselves to criticism for the conditional, if not for the assumptions.
I guess if you really feel the question is so confused as to be answerless, I’ll accept that. I would still challenge you to fill in plausible assumptions and state a preference.
Oh no. Eliezer, I have disagreed with you at times, but you have not actually disappointed me until this moment.
You should find that of all the people you know, none of them seem beyond criticism; they will always fail to live up to your ideal of perfection. That’s because there’s only one person whose job it is to live up to that ideal.
Not trying to evade your substantive criticism, just a side note.
But geez, I’m surprised you would criticize me for doing what a philosopher is supposed to do: study the situation to understand the question better, rather than make a definite answer to a question I don’t understand.
I never thought of myself as a philosopher. I just set out to debug the universe. I often have to do so using incomplete information. My motor actions do not have the luxury of vagueness, however I caveat my “answers”. If you think my philosophical dilemmas are vague, you should see the problem descriptions Nature hands me.
The people who filled in their own assumptions and stated a preference were acting courageously; they exposed themselves to criticism for the conditional, if not for the assumptions.
I guess if you really feel the question is so confused as to be answerless, I’ll accept that. I would still challenge you to fill in plausible assumptions and state a preference.