<div>Samantha Atkins wrote:</div> <div>That is not just "strange". It borders on willfully stupid. <BR>Astrology has been tested utterly flunked the test over </div> <div>and over again.</div> <div> </div> <div>Anna writes:</div> <div>What parts of astrology are you talking about?</div> <div>I would like to mention links when you powerfully declare</div> <div>something as stupid.</div> <div> </div> <div>Samantha wrote: </div> <div>If you wanted to learn characteristics then you would study human <BR>beings, psychology, evolutionary psychology and so on. </div> <div> </div> <div>Anna writes:</div> <div>Yes, thanks for the insight, I studied psychology in University,</div> <div>maybe I wasn't paying enough attention:)</div> <div> </div> <div>Samantha asks:</div> <div>Why would you think that clumps of similar characteristics get </div> <div>handed out based on your birth location and time?</div> <div> </div> <div>Anna
answers:</div> <div>Based on observation. </div> <div>I didn't mention location. </div> <div>Why couldn't their be a correlation between the time you </div> <div>are born and human characteristics? It seems pretty acurate to </div> <div>say that their are only so many charactestics humans can have. </div> <div>Why wouldn't their be a way to compute them? </div> <div>If the time you are born is a starting point *Leo, born in August*</div> <div>Why wouldn't it be likely that Leo's are born with certain </div> <div>characteristics? </div> <div>If i've observed enough correlation between characteristics </div> <div>of Leo and characterists of Pisces, how are you contemplating</div> <div>telling me my idea is stupid with no just answer but to tell me </div> <div>that it's bogus or false?</div> <div> </div> <div>Samantha wrote:</div> <div>You wouldn't try to draw some bogus correlation against the</div> <div>position of
certain groups of stars as seen from earth. </div> <div> </div> <div>Anna writes:</div> <div>Yes Samantha, I know your feelings on pseudoscience.</div> <div>Yet at the same time, I never mentioned anything about</div> <div>stars, location, horoscopes or any other meaning associated</div> <div>with Astrology except the time you are born.</div> <div>If you have any great ideas on how an AI is going to distinguish</div> <div>between human characteristics I would like to hear them.</div> <div> </div> <div>Anna:)</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><B><I>Samantha Atkins <sjatkins@mac.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"><BR>On Jul 17, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Anne-Marie Taylor wrote:<BR><BR>> Since you brought it up:)<BR>> This is way out there, I know. But what the heck, i'm known<BR>> now to do and say strange things:)<BR>><BR>> I was
wondering if astrology could help in building AI.<BR>> Don't get me wrong, I was looking at it from the point of view<BR>> of catagorizing certain charactestics based on the time frame<BR>> of when your born.<BR><BR>That is not just "strange". It borders on willfully stupid. <BR>Astrology has been tested utterly flunked the test over and over again.<BR><BR>><BR>> I am a strong believer in astrology based on the idea that people<BR>> born at a certain times have similar characterics (Again, from a point<BR>> of view of the Blue Man Theory).<BR>> This can't be proven, I know, it's just my experiences and<BR>> observations that have led me to be curious.<BR>><BR><BR>It has been proven bogus.<BR><BR>><BR>> Could Astrology just be a way for humans to learn about<BR>> characterics?<BR>><BR><BR>If you wanted to learn characteristics then you would study human <BR>beings, psychology, evolutionary psychology and so on. You wouldn't <BR>try
to draw some bogus correlation against the position of certain <BR>groups of stars as seen from earth. Why would you think that clumps <BR>of similar characteristics get handed out based on your birth <BR>location and time?<BR><BR><BR>><BR>> It would seem ludicrious to believe that human characterics are<BR>> unique per individual therefore there must be a way compute it.<BR>> How can something that's been around that long have no meaning<BR>> or reason?<BR><BR>You can have plenty of "meaning or reason" without making up bizarre <BR>theories like astrology or taking up such nonsense. Just because <BR>something has been around for a long time doesn't mean it has <BR>"meaning or reason". There are explanations for much of human nature <BR>and human characteristics though.<BR><BR>- samantha<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>extropy-chat mailing
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