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Re:Nvidia and Audi aim to bring a self-driving AI car to mar... by nradov on Thursday January 05, 2017 @01:19PM (#13329736)
Yes I would fly in any large airplane which is properly certified for scheduled commercial airline service, regardless of how it was designed. The FAA has earned our trust and has a good safety record so if they tell me the design is satisfactory then I would believe them. I also wouldn't take the risk of flying in any non-certified experimental aircraft, again regardless of who or what designed it.

We have no way to determine whether an explanation is true, false, or simply a post-hoc rationalization. We like to believe that we can, but we're just fooling ourselves.

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Re:Nvidia and Audi aim to bring a self-driving AI car to mar... by cscurmudgeon on Thursday January 05, 2017 @02:01PM (#13330236)
> We have no way to determine whether an explanation is true, false, or simply a post-hoc rationalization

If we have no way of determining whether something is true or false, then I can say the same thing about your own statement quoted above. I can just say it is false and go on with my life.

I sincerely hope you realize the obvious self contradiction :D

Logic 101. :)

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Re:Nvidia and Audi aim to bring a self-driving AI car to mar... by nradov on Thursday January 05, 2017 @03:19PM (#13330969)
There's no self contradiction. I never claimed that we have no way of determining whether something is true or false. I only claimed that we have no way of determining whether the explanation a person gives for how he made a decision actually matches his real mental process or motives. We can't yet install a debugger with break points and variable watches in the human mind; it's very much a black box.

Logic 201. :-)

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Re:Nvidia and Audi aim to bring a self-driving AI car to mar... by cscurmudgeon on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @01:32PM (#13428895)
Logic 101. :)

> I never claimed that we have no way of determining whether something is true or false

Everything can be cast as a declarative statement.

Matches(givenStatement, actualIntention).

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