Decius comments on By Which It May Be Judged - LessWrong

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Comment author: Decius 15 December 2012 12:41:27AM 0 points [-]

Code, instructions, and many things that can be expressed as information are only incidentally knowledge. There's nothing evil about writing a program and then deleting it; there is something evil about passing a law which prohibits programming from being taught, because programmers might create an unfriendly AI.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 16 December 2012 04:21:47AM 1 point [-]

Code, instructions, and many things that can be expressed as information are only incidentally knowledge.

Well, the knowledge from the tree appears to also have been knowledge of this kind.

Comment author: Decius 16 December 2012 08:53:50PM 0 points [-]

I draw comparisons between the serpent offering the apple, the Titan Prometheus, and Odin sacrificing his eye. Do you think that the comparison of those knowledge myths is unfair?