Career, Physics and Goals (was: Artificial General Intelligence Speculations)

[lmf]

@lmf

@Elliot

Assertions are not arguments, explanations or reasoning. This assertion should not persuade yourself or me.

Okay. I think that you say the assertion should not be persuasive to me because I might only have a memory of some of the thought processes that caused me to write what I wrote, and/or maybe a bias corrupted my memory. I don’t know how to refute possibilities like that, so I guess I agree. It somehow seems unlikely to me, but I doubt I could give a good argument for why.

I would definitely be curious to know what you think a persuasive argument would look like here. How can I objectively evaluate my own memories in situations like this?