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Originally Posted by Unright
How exactly could you program philosophy without bias? Aren't all philosophies essentially biased towards themselves? Isn't having a bias a pilosophy in itself?
Go to any religious section of any bookstore or library, it's filled with books claiming to be the only book you will ever need.
Are you just trying to test the cliche that history repeats itself?
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Computers and the code they execute are, by definition, non-biased. Code is logic, executed in linear fashion. A computer does not have the ability (beyond that which we may give it) to have an opinion. If the code was faulty (had data other than facts) then it would simply be faulty and not correctly make predictions. It'd be obvious pretty quickly that it was not fed unbiased information.
Secondly, do not confuse unbiased with nihilist. A computer is, I suppose, technically nihilistic. It does not believe anything, it just does what it's told to do. If you created a nihilistic program, it would not be able to adequately recreate humanity.