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Yuillegan:
Is your contention Morris, that Robots are incapable of making choices? Or that emotions are required to make choices?
Because, no offense, that is just dead wrong. Either way.
Some AI can make choices, that are more than mere programmed responses (in the strictest sense). Would you say that you can advertise to an AI?
Anyway If we are going to go into a deeper discussion of decision-making processes of the brain, we should probably make a new thread.
And I was not suggesting that Bad Alias was wrong in that we all cling to erroneous beliefs from time to time. Any old regular person can be dangerous and difficult, and we are all pitiable. But that does NOT mean we shouldn't strive to improve our thinking and refine or challenge our own ideas and convictions.
I think the world would be a better place if people were more prepared to examine their own views and change them as the situation demands.
Bad Alias:
I buy the cheapest green beans. Vegetables are vegetables, right? I love it when grocery stores label items with price/ounce (or whatever unit of measure).
Dina:
We have a law for that here, but sometimes the smaller stores don't do that, only the big supermarkets.
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on December 22, 2019, 10:10:26 PM ---Is your contention Morris, that Robots are incapable of making choices? Or that emotions are required to make choices?
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We'll it wouldn't be the first time I have been wrong. However I was paraphrasing Daniel Khaneman, in Thinking Fast And Slow. For instance, in Bad Alias's answer, what happens if five brands are at exactly the same price point? How does
he pick? The problem arises out of the fact that in most ways we are always presented too little data to make rational decisions. I could go on and on, but not in this thread.
--- Quote from: Dina on December 22, 2019, 11:35:07 PM ---We have a law for that here, but sometimes the smaller stores don't do that, only the big supermarkets.
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Every man, women and child should be able to do that calculation, it's an indictment of educational sytems that they can't. :'( >:(
Sorry for the divergence.
Bad Alias:
Do any of the brands have the super convenient pop top (they don't, that's the most expensive brand)? To your point, choosing based on price is, if not an emotional choice, a value choice.
It's not so easy to figure out when one product is in grams and one is in ounces. I do use a calculator to figure it out when the grocery store doesn't supply the answer.
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