<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">The answer to both of our questions is that a complete study of the cognitive errors may show that each error is, in fact, an extension of a brain function that is logical and necessary.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Take overgeneralization which I talk about a lot. We cannot exist without generalization, and overgeneralization will happen just as would any behavior that is not highly fixed in nature, such as an instinct. Variation in generalization will produce overgeneralization - it can't be helped, I think. A college football player said this morning that he despises the other team. In fact, the other team might contain players that he played with in high school and were friends with. OG. Perhaps spurred by strong emotions, which we already know flattens the generalization gradient..</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">You are, of course, right that education has to occur, and early. We have no other way of combatting these errors. For now. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 10:25 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_2856214351423877252WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] ai doorbell<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>>…<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> if we can figure out a way to educate the superstition out of most of them.<u> </u></span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">spike</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">I don't know if that is even possible. Obviously our brains accept false correlations as well as true ones, so we are fighting basic processes of our minds. All those cognitive errors we keep talking about are built in. I can't see our acquiring them as learning. Does anyone think they are learned? Our brains have worked well enough to get us here and thriving as a species and you can't blame Mother Nature for not making everything perfect. Evolution did its job, though much of the way our minds work is regrettable and could be designed much better. bill </span>w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">It is one step more subtle than that Billw. Our acceptance of superstition is built in, a phenomenon for which I use a term I already know you dislike: instinct. Our instinct steers us wrong (as it does with so many things) in this case. Accepting superstition is built in, but overcoming it is a learned behavior.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">One of our biggest challenges is that built in behaviors are low effort and replicate easier than learned behaviors. Soon the superstitious elements outnumber and outvote the learned behaviors.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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