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Baden

['Moderator', 'Subscriber', 'Editors']Joined: October 21, 2015 at 09:32Last active: February 25, 2026 at 17:15101 discussions16613 comments
Location: The desert of the meme.

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Comments

In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Seems some of my dissenting voice got deleted. But at least this remains: ''baden511: You get on with what you do and we'll get on with what we do. I ...
February 25, 2026 at 16:33
In: Donald Trump (All Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Fair enough. :up: I think things could be friendlier if we were all a little less reactive. Part of the problem I see is that it is highly profitable ...
February 03, 2026 at 15:42
In: Donald Trump (All Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Ireland hardly fares any better. Probably worse in that we're highly compromised and dependent on American tech.
February 03, 2026 at 15:39
In: Donald Trump (All Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
I agree to an extent. The Monroe doctrine doesn't extend across the pond though. Thankfully.
February 03, 2026 at 14:17
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
Friedrich Schiller - Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man Reread. I think Schiller's ideas are very relevant. I see him in a constellation with A...
February 03, 2026 at 13:36
In: Donald Trump (All Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
There's a power asymmetry that makes the U.S. more relevant to us in Europe than vice versa. Militarily, it's a world power and so globally relevant; ...
February 02, 2026 at 14:07
In: A new home for TPF  — view comment
Nice. :cool: :up:
November 23, 2025 at 13:38
In: A new home for TPF  — view comment
Please do. :up:
November 23, 2025 at 10:27
In: Bannings  — view comment
Anyhow, banning isn't personal. @"Harry Hindu", along with others who have been banned, have their good points (and there are members that got banned ...
November 07, 2025 at 08:21
In: Bannings  — view comment
@"Harry Hindu" has been discussed previously on the mod forum. This was not unexpected by any of the team and has nothing to do with @"Jamal"'s or any...
November 07, 2025 at 08:10
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
Please commend "guy at work" for his efforts to improve your reading list. Presumably, when he saw you flicking through "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" ...
October 30, 2025 at 09:35
In: How LLM-based chatbots work: their minds and cognition  — view comment
Good stuff. Thanks. :up:
October 27, 2025 at 09:45
In: How LLM-based chatbots work: their minds and cognition  — view comment
This seems strikingly close to an essay I have been writing on this (one I mentioned in the Banning AI discussion). A few quotes. "Erwin Schrodinger, ...
October 26, 2025 at 13:18
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
:up:
October 25, 2025 at 14:33
In: What are your plans for the 10th anniversary of TPF?  — view comment
:lol: You're welcome. :party:
October 23, 2025 at 15:07
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
The most menacing AI (I've come across) for doing things for you that you should be doing yourself is ChatGPT. That thing would take a for me if it co...
October 22, 2025 at 16:00
In: What are your plans for the 10th anniversary of TPF?  — view comment
Thank goodness. :starstruck:
October 22, 2025 at 15:58
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
I'm also very pessimistic actually. Feel fee to PM if you'd like a pdf of the technoethics essay and the AI one if you want. Or the whole book (ten es...
October 22, 2025 at 15:41
In: What are your plans for the 10th anniversary of TPF?  — view comment
I kind of need Susan Sarandon's permission. It's a long story but my theory is she invented the thing channelling energy through @"jamal" and his pred...
October 22, 2025 at 15:35
In: What are your plans for the 10th anniversary of TPF?  — view comment
The intensity of the Shoutbox's black box potential (its complete "virtual past" as pure undercurrent) has reached levels where I daren't reenter with...
October 22, 2025 at 15:28
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
In one of my essays, I suggest AIs (because---depite their potential positives---of how they work on most people) are essentially entropy exporting an...
October 22, 2025 at 15:24
In: What are your plans for the 10th anniversary of TPF?  — view comment
Regardless of when you joined, you embody the indomitable, ineffable spirit of TFP, javi, which is what's most important. :strong:
October 22, 2025 at 15:11
In: What are your plans for the 10th anniversary of TPF?  — view comment
Huh, what? Oh, wow! :party: :heart:
October 22, 2025 at 14:23
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
:up:
October 22, 2025 at 09:02
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
Thank you. I hope most of us are coming around to being more or less on the same page on this now.
October 21, 2025 at 22:53
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
I mean how hard is to understand the following that @"apokrisis" just really can't manage to get no matter how many times we repeat it: 1) We're happy...
October 21, 2025 at 13:28
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
It gets sillier when people outsource their thinking and writing skills to AI. Although in your case it might be worthwhile to make an exception so we...
October 21, 2025 at 13:13
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
Posters seem to be still confused about, at least, my approach. It's not black and white overall because I agree that AIs can be used positively, and ...
October 20, 2025 at 10:46
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
:up:
October 19, 2025 at 16:22
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
How so? Are you against all use of AI in every context? I mean that is definitely something we couldn't police even if we wanted to.
October 19, 2025 at 14:04
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
See above for example of clunky writing... :smile:
October 19, 2025 at 14:01
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
My take on this---which I think is fairly consistent with @"Jamal" as we've just had an exchange in the mod forum---is, as I said there: "We allow pro...
October 19, 2025 at 14:00
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
You were transparent about where you got the information, so it comes down to a question of credibility, and we can make our own minds up on that. If ...
October 19, 2025 at 06:19
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
Agreed. :up:
October 19, 2025 at 06:06
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
If someone wants to go to that trouble, sure. And we should make them do it rather than make it easy for them. There is also the possibility of compar...
October 19, 2025 at 06:03
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
Absolutely. I made this point to a colleague when discussing this issue. The university is not just the buildings and the abstract institution, it is ...
October 19, 2025 at 05:54
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
I use it to research not write the results of my research. I also use books to research and don't plagiarise from them. Been through this already. Say...
October 18, 2025 at 20:30
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
Well, you sound like you, gratifyingly. AI don't make them typos. :party:
October 18, 2025 at 15:52
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
Well, it's already embraced for research and rightly so. But plagiarism generally isn't and shouldn't be. We ought not conflate the two things. I pers...
October 18, 2025 at 15:41
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
I don't know. It's kind of like saying that you can steal 40% of the bank's money, but no more. At that point, the concept of policing has already sor...
October 18, 2025 at 15:23
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
There are plenty of online tools out there that already do that. Some are more reliable than others. Tip: Avoid sponsored results that give false posi...
October 18, 2025 at 15:19
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
Yes, I see the danger of giving that impression.
October 18, 2025 at 10:47
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
(None of the above should be taken to mean that I am anti-AI tout court. AI has been exceptionally helpful to me in my own research. What I am against...
October 18, 2025 at 10:41
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
:cool: :up:
October 18, 2025 at 10:21
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
Thanks, javi. :pray: (I've written some more on this in Banno's AI discussion).
October 18, 2025 at 10:19
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
Yes, that's correct.
October 18, 2025 at 10:17
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
This anecdote might help my case: At another department of the university where I work, the department heads in their efforts to "keep up with the tim...
October 18, 2025 at 10:14
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
I've mentioned this in the mod forum, so I'll mention it here too. I disagree with diluting the guidelines. I think we have an opportunity to be excep...
October 18, 2025 at 10:00
In: Banning AI Altogether  — view comment
I've added the note: NO AI-WRITTEN CONTENT ALLOWED to the guidelines and I intend to start deleting AI written threads and posts and banning users who...
October 18, 2025 at 09:15
In: What Difference Would it Make if You Had Not Existed?  — view comment
Here's another way of looking at it: Suppose we subtract ourselves from existence to project back this lack into it and we realize that nothing really...
September 19, 2025 at 15:07
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