[FRIAM] Draft abstract

[Marcus Daniels]

< I once knew a very intelligent determinist who argued that punishment was important nevertheless. It plays the same role as training for neural nets. Even though the neural net mechanism is deterministic, it's useless without training. Punishment, and more generally child-rearing and education serve the same function for society. They make humans much more valuable members. All that is fully compatible with determinism.  >

Later in the process the humans may be a bit better, but it couldn’t have been any other way.  Or, if one allows for true randomness, it could be many ways, but none of them are controllable.

Marcus
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