<p>This is why you need Zadeh or Kosko to rescue things with fuzzy logic! Put a hysteresis band in the middle! :)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 9, 2015 6:48 AM, "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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>...On Behalf Of Anders Sandberg<br>
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Subject: Re: [ExI] The list is in the timeline<br>
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On 2015-12-08 21:38, spike wrote:<br>
>> Cool! Anders, make them spell your name correctly please...<br>
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>...But that is my evil twin. Triplet, actually. He and Anders Sandburg work<br>
with Nick's evil twin Nick Bostrum at the Future of Humanities institute.<br>
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Dr Anders Sandberg<br>
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Oh OK thanks for that clarification.<br>
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Your comment has me pondering evil twins and triplets in general. The evil<br>
twin thing is fairly simple, the terms unambiguous. But once we introduce<br>
the complexity of triplets, it upsets my sense of symmetry to imagine two of<br>
the siblings evil and one good. It just feels like you should have one on<br>
either end of the malicious/benevolence spectrum with one exactly at zero.<br>
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But that introduces a new complexity: how does the middle guy stay exactly<br>
unevil and ungood simultaneously? Or does she alternate days? And what if<br>
the same action being defined as good by some observers and evil by others?<br>
This is common in politics for instance. I can't even give you an example<br>
of a living adult exactly at zero on the mal/ben spectrum. It is easy to be<br>
evil, and it is pretty clear how to be good. But how does one be exactly<br>
balanced? If the neutral triplet strays even a little bit either direction,<br>
it causes the whole family to be defined as that characteristic.<br>
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The mind boggles.<br>
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spike<br>
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