Yeah, as my handle would suggest, I want AI to happen in my lifetime, what's left of it! Too bad this looks like a case of hyperactive imagination, or...
I see. If this story manages to capture the public's imagination in a big way, Hollywood will not waste time making a movie out of it. That's hitting ...
What's noteworthy here is LaMDA did manage to fool Blake LeMoine (passing the Turing Test)! There's a grain of truth in his claims, ignoring the possi...
Welcome Robot Overlords. The Turing Test doesn't specify the definition of a human being. I believe even garden variety computers can mimic a small ch...
:up: From your discussion with Metaphysican Undercover I see that you've given (due) weightage to the will - free will is a cornerstone of ethics. In ...
Conversion (religious) by word or by sword! Aut consilio aut ense. Argumentum ad baculum. Argumentum ad verecundiam. I find these two to be very persu...
As I said, nothing is more easily grasped as a particular than as a universal. Intriguingly and lamentably, there's been more work done on \infty (Geo...
Folk religion is basically an introductory course to religious doctrine. Like most 101 courses, the idea is to give the audience just a taste of the s...
Two points I feel are worth mentioning. 1. We have a duty to educate ourselves, keep ourselves well-informed. 2. The state has a duty educate us and k...
I don't get it! Such proficiency in language and Blake LeMoine declares LaMDA to be equivalent to a 7/8 year old kid! What were his reasons for ignori...
The laws of biology seem to possess a tenuous positve valence, morally speaking. Physically, it's impossible for one person to commit genocide: after ...
Argumentum ad nomen The name LaMDA is too ordinary, too uninteresting, too mundane - it just doesn't have that zing that betrays greatness! I think Bl...
Does anyone know of any instances in the past when a world-changing discovery was leaked to the public and then covered up by calling into question th...
The problem as I see it is that no single trait humans have a potential for are manifested in all of us - absent/present and deficit/excess in re some...
:grin: Keeping a low profie has its advantages. Stay low Google unless you want to draw all the wrong kinda attention. Yeah and gracias for bringing u...
To do list 1. Understand Nagarjuna's tetralemma. The Buddhist negation denial (vide Nyet in OP) is to reject a proposition p but avoids affirming the ...
The first order of business is to check and doublecheck whether it's April Fool's Day! Second, is Blake Lemoine in his senses? He could be delirious o...
The OP clearly demonstrates that a good definition of a human is missing - they're all either too broad (DNA) or too narrow (ability to do math, vide ...
:snicker: Well, I recall someone telling me that accidents are to be expected and there's nothing interesting going on unless, he said, it always happ...
Nice! The word "nothing" is multifaceted. It has been used in so many different areas in as many different ways. What I find intriguing about nothing ...
I'm not well-versed in Marxism to formulate a sensible reply to your question. All I can say is there's a link between Marxism and totalitarianism. Is...
This is on the mark. Being a multi-ethnic society, a history of slavery, then discrimination which lasted until the 70s, freedom of thought & religion...
Marxism looks good on paper - it's the same with everything else. The true valence (+/-) of an idea is revealed when, as they say, the rubber meets th...
(General/Universal) Nothing negates anything and everything. A gedanken experiment is in order. Imagine a man Y and a woman X who've been brought up s...
Justice serves 3 purposes 1. Retribution 2. Deterrence 3. Rehabilitation For the moment we can set 3 aside. It dawned on me a coupla weeks ago that Ju...
Festina lente (make haste slowly) Haste makes waste Look before you leap That's all I can think of at the moment. The idea is to well slow down to gai...
:up: Medieval curriculum Stage 1. Trivium a) Grammar b) Logic c) Rhetoric Stage 2. Quadrivium a) Arithmetic b) Geometry c) Music d) Astronomy Ethics i...
Yep, that's the standard explanation for Tertullian's pronouncements. It does seem rather odd and arrogant that we think ourselves capable of apprehen...
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