Plastic being dumped as cheaply as possible into the oceans etc is the main cause of plastic pollution and that is done by nefarious profiteers. You n...
It is just as arrogant to suggest this life we have in this universe is somehow a bad one and we should prevent anyone living it. We have purpose, we ...
Just to give a more direct answer to your laboriously hyped question. NO, I don't think innocent people deserve harm but the solution is not something...
So, answer the question I posed to you and stop obfuscating, otherwise, you are not worth my time as you are engaging in mere sophistry. The points yo...
I do, but I will respond to what you type. Clarity is your responsibility also. If your response is based on the emphasis of certain words I have type...
This answer is quite clear. It implies that you agree that innocence/guilt is a concept created from the human condition. I think good/evil is the sam...
Scientists have certainly been involved in biological and chemical warfare but it would be rather dumb to create a virus that can kill as many of your...
My question was, does innocence/guilt exist outside of the human species or our like? I do challenge your argument. I asked you if the purpose of the ...
I thought I might copy and paste this email I received from a UK group who are fighting for a basic income for all. I just thought some on TPF might b...
If you are saying that an individual's own life experience or/and their own (perhaps even subconscious) bias can influence how they interpret an event...
:up: Perhaps only the Neuroscientists working with Computer scientists will offer us some future answers. I don't think it will be in my lifetime. An ...
For you, is innocence/guilt a creation of human conscience or does it have any significance outside of humans or they're like? If lifeforms such as hu...
Did science not eradicate the harm of smallpox to use a simple example. If you feel you fall short in these aspects yourself does that mean everyone d...
Would any artificial system such as an android emulation of a human have to have 'childhood experiences,' either programmed into it or actually have l...
My imaginary scenario was more about our reliance on others to confirm who you are and we also rely on records to confirm so much about our status and...
would these intact aspects of identity hold no matter how long my experiment lasted? I used to add a bit, such as 'after two years of this. I turn up ...
Science can help you with all three of those? If not you then your kids or their kids but if there are no more kids then the human adventure dies alon...
I appreciate the links. I will have a look! Again, thanks for the very interesting exchange :smile: I am surprised that your line of thought did not a...
How about this thought experiment Jack that I used to chat to my S6 pupils (16,17) about. Normally when we had finished the course and were near to th...
I didn't comment on your Feynman link as I have watched all that is available on him on youtube many times as I am a big Feynman fan. I am glad you en...
I agree but it's also a continuum of how your legacy is interpreted by each new mind that encounters its forms of memorialisation and their view of th...
Well 'scribbles on a screen' is a phrase intended to dilute the importance of the communication attempt or the communication method or perhaps both. W...
Perhaps there is a subtle joining here of 'effect' and interpretation of that effect becoming a personalised meaning. I would prefer your last sentenc...
Not if meaning is subjective and interpretive. How can inherent meaning be subjective? If you are saying that the reason is that some interpretations ...
Ok, I understand your viewpoint as much as I am going to on this topic I think. We certainly have common ground and some disagreement. Thanks for the ...
Its not different really but it is down to their interpretation of the 'effect' you have had on THE world or THEIR world. Which can be very different ...
Indeed. But others judge your 'meaning' or 'value' to the world or to their individual lives. You have the 'reluctant' hero, you have the 'good guy' i...
It's a personal value measure, yes, it's subjective, yes. Seeking personal meaning may be objectively true. I suppose you would have to see how many d...
Have you not suggested an answer yourself. Meaning is a human measure of significance. A measure of profundity, which has a range from low to high, sm...
You seem to fluctuate. Some of your sentences suggest the intent will come from the AI. At other times you suggest the merging will be symbiotic. If W...
Why do you insist on intent from the AI side instead of the human side. If we create an terminator/skynet type system then it is more likely to try to...
I watched your offering above. As it suggested it was an intro. In my third year at Uni, I was part of a team of 4 students who worked on a chaos theo...
That just reads like sour grapes on your part. I maintain that the example you offered of a system that passes the Turing test was a bad one and it di...
A strange rather illogical projection. Is an ocean artificial because it's made of H2O atoms? By that logic, is the entire macro scale of the universe...
Does the word 'legacy,' hold any importance to you? What about more emotive terms such as 'standing on the shoulders of giants.' Or are you more attra...
Watched the clip you offered. That was quite a bad example. No scientific rigor at all. An unconvincing salesman trying to flog a smart system to busi...
I would not use the term AI at all to refer to any natural happenstance which has occurred in the past 13.8 billion years. As I have typed before, bas...
Yeah, but they will have the same questions to answer as we do. Is conscious, intelligent, sentient life such as us, the best the universe can produce...
Or it means that such musings are useful for entertainment purposes. Good that you have such anchorage and you are not just (as a Scot would phrase it...
This is harmless conjecture which employs too many emotive terms for me such 'father AI,' and 'cosmic AI's.' We don't know what started life on Earth....
I am on my way out to a session of pub crawling through Glasgow city center. Good friends, good banter, beers and cheers. Lots of looking at beautiful...
Or put another way, humans finally taking responsibility for what they do and stop, at last, trying to scapegoat gods. We might also finally realise t...
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