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From "Break out from the Crystal Palace" by John Carroll, which I happen to be reading. "Soon there will be no more adventure, finally no more action,...

We did have that dude in Joyce's Ulysses. Not sure if he's still around or being a fictional character even counts though.

Or superficially rational which is what tends to happen I think.

/uploads/files/ky/nvkhkzr0kbh36rra.jpeg What's the environmental motive for flying a plane into a building and blowing yourself up in the process? Cer...

:up: There's a line of thought that always looks for sociocultural / environmental reasons for taboos and you can almost always find something to clin...

Street too, of course. @"Sheps" had for a while the tagline "partial Zizek enthusiast" on the old PF, but, yes, he looks like he's not even a member h...

@"sheps"? I remember getting into Zizek because of him actually. Anyway, yes, subjectivity rather than consciousness per se because his overarching in...

It was indeed a jest. I would be satisfied if @"hanover" would stop speaking nonsense like "lox" which is surely not a food and just something he made...

:up: Reprojections maybe. Halls of ideological mirrors here. I wonder though if even your distinction can be perverted by our social puppetmasters pul...

Don't see the connection between those two or what it has to do with anyone's "followers" but OK.

For anyone into Hegel, Marx, or Lacan at the very least he can't but be interesting. I think you would be surprised if you dived in.

Which of his books have you read?

It's in the logic of wanting that we should want not to want, as the ostensible goal of wanting, satisfaction, extinguishes want. But yeah, seems like...

:up: Do you? If so, what are they? If you don't, please simply consult a search engine or chat GPT for this type of thing. We expect those who start a...

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javi2541997 When you get to that many posts, will you stop talking about food? *Bows gracefully*

The gentleman employs Js in moderation and particularly frowns on alliterative excesses of this consonantal ragamuffin. While the rule may be breached...

Hmm, maybe starts with the philosopher loving an idea in himself and trying to make it real with language in order to give him the sense he is grounde...

No. I'd interpret Macron's posturing as trying to shore up support domestically where he's in deep trouble. And wouldn't be surprised if he signalled ...

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Sad story but who could blame her?

And there are a 100 million people typing all sorts of crap into that thing. Good luck getting noticed even if you are up to something dodgy.

Don't expect your conversations with ChatGPT to be private. Do expect them to be judged in context. I don't see any particular worry here. If you're e...

I'm taking the @"Banno" approach--semi-pointless trouble making. :nerd:

I would agree that defining philosophical concepts in advance of a discussion carries both the danger of unintentionally obscuring difficulties with t...

What hit me about the video and some other research I've done is the underlying mechanism here: this AI is a pattern recognition, prediction, and mani...

Nice discussion topic. Everyone should watch that video. More to say later but because it seems apt, GPT-4 just wrote this piece of micro fiction for ...

The difference between a definition and a stipulative definition is somewhat collapsible if you stipulate you are referring to X "in its common use" o...

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I gotta say man, I'm proud of you. In fact, my image of you has been elevated to a whole new level. I will never forgot the way you made me feel today...

If completed discreetly, in a private place and for good reason--such as said motor is in dire need of a "service", I should think it may be at least ...

I consider it my duty to inform you that it is not within the realm of gentlemanly conduct to engage in coital relations with one's automobile. In fac...

That's what's good about them! They have the potential to expose us to certain false assumptions about ourselves by creating highly artificial scenari...

I think teaching critical thinking in schools is a good idea but it's a relatively new one. What I think Isaac is pointing to is that it's likely few ...

Seems more of a cultural issue, doesn't it? Language will naturally morph to fill the gaps of cultural functioning and the process is quite efficient....

This is essentially how we did it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDtMMsFoHuY Of course you did... It was all Clarky's idea tbh.

We allow jrob some minor freedoms just to give him the sense he's really in charge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BgF7Y3q-as

This is Paul who ran old PF. He's been around (if you consider both forums) longer than any of us. Good to see you active again, @"Paul". I see this a...

You may now smoke a cigar, a chara.

Now that I have competition from Chat GPT in the area of funny talk, I'm trying to up my game. :starstruck:

To be perfectly honest, the proper approach to the enunciation of words of the Anuran tongue has always been a vexed subject for the gentleman. One do...

''Filet'' indeed; it is a curious American trait to achieve such a superficial pretentiousness to class while in substance to maintain such an absolut...

I withdraw the claim that it's demonstrably true because you are right in indicating the subjective nature of the judgement. As for the rest, the impl...

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I thank you for bringing that to my attention. I am gratified that I had the honour of beginning this new adventure in Shoutbox paginatoriousness with...

The original claim is demonstrably true. Your attempt at apologia is unsupportable and further undermined by your patronising attitude. You can't eras...

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Indeed, most exponents of the upper echelons of canineship are.

Skirting the irony of your tone in order to illume the nugget it obscures, allow me to observe that there is something to be said for apemanship in it...