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Right, and those people looked back in horror and dismay at all the famine that did a fine job of killing their predecessors. Must any criticism of modern prac
by gooseus 9y ago
Right, and those people looked back in horror and dismay at all the famine that did a fine job of killing their predecessors.
Must any criticism of modern practices equate to an endorsement of dialing back to ancient ones?
Is anybody building AI to catch these sorts of obvious fallacies? Now that would be pretty damn impressive for an AGI skeptic such as myself.
- tptacek 9y agoYou take the good with the bad, is I guess all I'm saying.
- code_duck 9y agoBut why? How about intelligently assessing the situation and doing away with The Bad?
- tptacek 9y agoBy invoking the naturalist fallacy ("as nature intended"), I read the original comment on this thread as suggesting we throw the good away with the bad. My point is: that would be a bad trade. The pre-modern food supply was far more dangerous than the one we have now.
- eivarv 9y agoThat's not the naturalist[ic] fallacy, but an appeal to nature. But you're right.
- saint_fiasco 9y agoNot necessarily, but in this case it did. The grandparent comment talks approvingly of nature's intention.