Human values aren't what they should be. (Being composed mainly of a small set of simple drives and aversions.) But such as they are they appear to serve men a bit better than they do women.
For example: A woman should want the fittest man she can find. Model Daisy Lowe, on the other hand, thinks that "You can always judge a man by his shoes."
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Thursday, December 1, 2011
US military spending
The USA spends about as much on the military as the whole rest of the world combined! This is clearly too much. Does the US think that it is going to fight the whole world? Does it think it could win such a fight?
Books versus journal articles
While working in fusion energy I collected far more journal articles than books. While working in artificial intelligence I collected about the same number of journal articles but I bought (and read) far more AI books than fusion/plasma books. Perhaps it is more difficult to get AI research published and this results in people assembling a larger number of book length collections of their work?
Friday, November 11, 2011
Ultimate values
Life (or mechanical life like Asa H) has as its most fundamental values reproductive success and lifespan (survival). (see my blogs of 21 Sept. 2010 and 19 Feb. 2011) Agents occupy a volume in space-time. Perhaps they should strive to occupy (or exert influence over) more space, not just have longer duration (lifespan). Life that is widely distributed has a better chance of survival if something happens to one of its habitats. Perhaps spreading out over space should be one of our ultimate values. i.e. life spreads. If enacted, such a value would encourage work on space travel.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
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