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Re:Bayes's Theorem: What's the Big Deal? by manish_gill on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @08:47AM (#10850433)
Not everyone has to agree. That's why we have the scientific method and research institutes. If the current science shows that something is worth exploring in more detail, that some avenues are worth spending money on, spending money on them makes sense.

Bullshit Ideas like AI apocalypse and singularity, transhumanism, downloading brain into a computer do not fit into that criteria.

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Re:Bayes's Theorem: What's the Big Deal? by Anderkent on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @10:57AM (#10851154)
So how do ideas get to the stage where the 'research institutes' agree they're worth investigating?

It seems to me like you're saying "I don't like these ideas, no one should be working on them". That seems a worse principle then "everyone should work on ideas they find worth investigating".

I also have no idea how you distinguish 'Bullshit Ideas' from non-bullshit ideas without investigating them. Your gut is not that good at distinguishing truth from a blunder.

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