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>From: rwmurphr@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert W Murphree)
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Subject: Re: AI failures
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Well its true that evolutionary biology can make some predictions about human
nature.  But when you really get into anthropology its so nebulous and dependent
on the anthropologist observers opinion that making any real sense of human
values is really pretty silly.  Which isn't to say anthropology and evolutionalryu theory is a waste-its just pretty vague when you get to the questions of
how to live your life.  To put it another way-real anthropology means ethnology 
do you really trust margaret mead or freedman to tell you how to live your
life? Yes you can speculate, but you cannot KNOW very much about human values
in the particular (not the abstract) from anthropolgy.  Its a fun game, but
it doesn't lead to cetainty.  


