[extropy-chat] Extropic Commandments [was Re: Islamic morons win yet again]

[Olie Lamb]

Firstly, I think you're approaching the "unified set of beliefs" thing the
wrong way by trying to create a set of commandments first.

Secondly, the ones you've got suck:

On 9/29/06, Robert Bradbury <robert.bradbury at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 1) Information of greater complexity has greater value than information of
> lesser complexity.
>

This would seem to work directly against Occam's Razor.

2) Information in agreement with the natural laws and history of the
> universe has greater value than information in disagreement with the natural
> laws and history of the universe.
>

Well, this is good and well...

3) Thou shalt seek to maximize the amount of information and its complexity
> in existence.
>

I see this as (1) completely unsupported (2) a great way to promote waste.

I don't see anything good about complexity.  There's nothing artful about
complexity.  There's nothing mystical about complexity.  It's just complex.

I respect the difference between complication and complexity; but just
because one is garbage doesn't imply the other is laudable.

There's many schools of thought that hold that if goal can be achieved by
simpler methods, this is better/more beautiful than if that same goal can be
achieved in a more complex manner.  This leads to the theoretical basis of
"gracefulness" in most physical art.

After all: via arduior est  - there is /always/ a more difficult way.


4) Thou shalt seek to make such information available to the greatest number
> of computational units to derive more information from it.
>

Heh.  You just advocated (computational) spam.

-- Olie
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