Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
by babesh on Monday March 19, 2018 @01:21PM
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That isn't correct. Culture is learning from other people's mistakes. The only question is whether the human can and is willing to accept the lessons (and whether the lessons are correct).
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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
by gt_ on Monday March 19, 2018 @01:36PM
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Culture is comprised of many things, and some similar things, but not that. By definition, culture is merely a collective persistence, and therefor inherently superficial. Culture cannot capacitate “learning” or even lessons. Culture is limited to memetic abstractions, with a lot of alleged noise. Insofar as culture supports persistence of worthwhile norms, it would be limited to evolutionary adaptation (survival of the fittest). It’s important to distinguish to avoid the fallacy of argumentum ad populum.