Agent Smith

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But the details, mon ami, go into the details. It's hard for me to make sense of someone who, on the one hand, claims probabilities in re aliens are n...

Superb inferences mon ami! Apologies you had to be contradictory.

Apologies, my bad. I seem to have barked up the wrong tree mon ami. Carry on.

:up: Why would you be prejudiced against probability? Don't you wanna fix that or are you happy (with yourself)? You never actually answered my questi...

That is to say there's a reason. I like @"TheMadMan"'s POV too. He seems to be saying that one must look Beyond Good and Evil (Freddy Nietzsche). That...

Well, the two are logically connected mon ami (they're both possibility mathematized i.e. probability). Granted that casino games of chance are relati...

How do you explain the fact that someone who understands mathematical probability can win casino games? Is that baloney? There's nothing wrong, prima ...

Let Santa Claus speak for himself.

:up: So, I wanna know the probability that aliens exist. What kinda data should I be collecting? P. S. Are you trying to insinuate that math is witchc...

Keep rolling, watch out for that cliff mon ami!

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:ok: HAL 9000 would've considered those options you mentioned?! :scream: I wonder what HAL 9000's assessment of humans would look like? Very reasonabl...

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The net entropy, you're right on the money, increases. Was there any order to begin with or was it always chaos and then more chaos? @"Gnomon".

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I hear ya loud and clear sir. I didn't think of every possibility - that's what creative peeps do and I'm not. It seems it's not possible to answer th...

:ok: TheMadMan - you changed yer tune or was I not listening?

:up: There's a point to @"Lambert Strether"'s remark. If I place A, B, C in that particular sequence, one begins to see growth/advancement in the seri...

:up: What about the famous Drake Equation?

Very antinatalist and antitranshumanist in tone. The idea is to protect humanity. I wonder if AI would go Ultron on us.

Thank god! :sweat:

Nice short short story. I just wanna make sense of nonvegetarianism, that's all. There are certain ideas at play that seem imply that God can eat us. ...

That's interesting. It just is. There's no reason why it just is, it just is. I could say the same thing you know. How would you respond?

I get what you mean. We'll have to assign values to crucial probabilities arbitrarily. So if we had data we could derive more accurate probabilities f...

Yep, the universe doesn't care whether there's progress or not, but that doesn't mean there's none.

:lol: Finally, something! :joke:

Where there's uncertainty (we've been discussing that all along), there's (mathematical) probability. I thought that was the rule. You seem to disagre...

:up: So what you're saying is just an idea you had and nothing more. It just is!

That's on old game you're playing mon ami.

Now translate all that you said into \frac{A}{B} where A = the # of outcomes that satisfy the desired event. B = the total # of possible outcomes.

Nice! Is there any logic to this what appears to be a cycle of eating-secretion-eating-secreting-eating ... ad infinitum? It just is?

I'm sorry but I don't see it. Can you be more explicit? Gracias. It is quite interesting that you brought the issue of materialism up - animals, that ...

There's a subjective component to probability. If I say there's a 20% chance of Trump winning the next elections what exactly do I mean?

Can you complete the metaphor for me? You might wanna look into the consequences of the point you made.

https://youtu.be/cZkcmjYRNo4 :lol:

Would an AI designed to protect mankind - if it comes down to choosing only one of two, a last man xor a last woman (imagine a spaceship has room for ...

:rofl: Does it still work if we flip it around? :chin:

is due to one and only one reason - Doubting Thomas was the Christian missionary to Hindoostan. His skepticism disseminated faster and wider than his ...

Ok! :up:

Interesting! Loopy, definitely loopy, and I see you haven't completely solved the problem ... yet. Any progress on that front mon ami?

Bravo! Laozi, very Laozi. The (Möbius) loop, exactly! We return to where we started and begin again (the Sisyphusean carousel). What are the wider ram...

Then there's Mirror Self Recognition Test. https://youtu.be/GaMylwohL14

The Western mind has always been directed outwards, relatively that is. With this outer mindset, the West is now in charge of mamma nature - flattenin...

:up: I see you disagree that there's progress the way I described it: Matter \to Life \to Consciousness. Why? There clearly is a sequence here, oui mo...

https://youtu.be/Cfvdtxm_XUg :rofl:

You're right, but there's something rather disturbing about reductionism (read science). I see progress in the universe, from matter to life to consci...

:lol: Merry (belated) Xmas Jamal

Edited the OP. Danke!