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But we can point out the losers.
Moral questions are similar to "long horizon," sparse reward tasks. Finding the best possible decisions and actions for long term results requires neural networks with adequate depth and breadth, with optimal and efficient algorithms.
There is no long term reward in life (unless you think death is a Good Thing), only the joy of living.
only the joy of living.
Are 17 years old humans children?
It's what makes me get out of bed. Or into bed.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 28/09/2023 14:06:06Are 17 years old humans children?Yes: there is no evidence of the spontaneous generation of humans. National law arbitrarily defines an adult for legal purposes, with the line generally drawn somewhere between 13 and 18.
I think we all know what "children" means, but "universal", "wrong" and "harm" mean different things in different contexts.
Every adult is someone's child. Not every child is an adult. Those people who are not adults have some additional statutory protections.
Quote from: alancalverd on 05/10/2023 12:09:14It's what makes me get out of bed. Or into bed. It also made Ted Bundy had sex with dead women.
In popular culture and media, dopamine is often portrayed as the main chemical of pleasure, but the current opinion in pharmacology is that dopamine instead confers motivational salience;[6][7][8] in other words, dopamine signals the perceived motivational prominence (i.e., the desirability or aversiveness) of an outcome, which in turn propels the organism's behavior toward or away from achieving that outcome.
Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said."We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.Credit: Ira Byock.
Most quadrupeds (possibly not kangaroos) can survive with 3 functional legs,
1. War2. Religion or politics