[ExI] The list is in the timeline

[Michael Butler]

This is why you need Zadeh or Kosko to rescue things with fuzzy logic! Put
a hysteresis band in the middle! :)
On Dec 9, 2015 6:48 AM, "spike" <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> >...On Behalf Of Anders Sandberg
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> Subject: Re: [ExI] The list is in the timeline
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> On 2015-12-08 21:38, spike wrote:
> >> Cool!  Anders, make them spell your name correctly please...
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> >...But that is my evil twin. Triplet, actually. He and Anders Sandburg
> work
> with Nick's evil twin Nick Bostrum at the Future of Humanities institute.
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> --
> Dr Anders Sandberg
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> Oh OK thanks for that clarification.
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> Your comment has me pondering evil twins and triplets in general.  The evil
> twin thing is fairly simple, the terms unambiguous.  But once we introduce
> the complexity of triplets, it upsets my sense of symmetry to imagine two
> of
> the siblings evil and one good.  It just feels like you should have one on
> either end of the malicious/benevolence spectrum with one exactly at zero.
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> But that introduces a new complexity: how does the middle guy stay exactly
> unevil and ungood simultaneously?  Or does she alternate days?  And what if
> the same action being defined as good by some observers and evil by others?
> This is common in politics for instance.  I can't even give you an example
> of a living adult exactly at zero on the mal/ben spectrum.  It is easy to
> be
> evil, and it is pretty clear how to be good.  But how does one be exactly
> balanced?  If the neutral triplet strays even a little bit either
> direction,
> it causes the whole family to be defined as that characteristic.
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> The mind boggles.
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> spike
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