[FRIAM] Draft abstract

[Frank Wimberly]

Reminds me of Calvinism.  It is predetermined whether you will go to Heaven
or Hell but you'd better behave as if it isn't.

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 4:35 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> < 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.  >
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> 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.
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> Marcus
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