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How dare you insult @"Banno" that way! No, that's exactly what I understood you to say and thought I acknowledged that. My point was that I saw their ...
October 29, 2025 at 03:56
This is precisely the objectionable use of AI in my opinion. It sets AI as the expert, it provides no source references, the poster adds no value but ...
October 29, 2025 at 03:30
I don't see where Pierce and Wittgenstein are at odds or where Pierce advanced upon Wittgenstein"s ideas. Pierce offers an explanation of how we might...
October 29, 2025 at 00:37
We're referencing the output, not the internal variations leading up to those outputs. The question isn't whether the machine is typing, but it's whet...
October 28, 2025 at 17:15
That's a silly conclusion. Wittgensteinian principles aren't a driver for the decisions we reach, and it's entirely possible that one can believe mean...
October 28, 2025 at 15:32
I think that's right, and it may be AI truly engages in a language game in the Wittgensteinian analysis. There is the pesky question of what is meant ...
October 28, 2025 at 13:45
It's an interesting question (although not really asked) whether a perfect god entails that ought and is be the same.
October 28, 2025 at 12:22
Not really. I'm only saying that it seems possible to create a an AI system that works within a complex environment such that it must anticipate next ...
October 27, 2025 at 21:00
No it's not. The example I provided had dissimilar methods for acheiving the same result. The submarine example has dissimilar methods for acheiving d...
October 27, 2025 at 20:56
It seems like in the past few months we've gotten very far, but I realize things were happening in the background before I became aware of them. But I...
October 27, 2025 at 19:21
This surprises me, although my knowledge of the subject is limited to your last 2 posts, so there's that. That is, you described how certain informati...
October 27, 2025 at 19:18
Doesn't it do this with auto-pilot airplanes and self-driven vehicles? ChatGpt isn't a good example of this because it has no inputs other than a pers...
October 27, 2025 at 18:58
I don't see how you arrive at the second sentence from the first. In the Shoutbox, the conversations was of water pumps. If I have a pump that operate...
October 27, 2025 at 18:53
I think this is compatible with meaning is use as long as you're describing public manifestations. If preparedness is a qualitative state it's not com...
October 27, 2025 at 18:42
I filled up today and it was $2.72 per gallon. Convert that to whatever I'm looking at here. As I recall, you guys sell it by the kiloliter, which is ...
October 27, 2025 at 18:23
Under this understanding, then so is the cat. That is, the cat is out there, the image is in here, and the reference is to the image in your head. And...
October 27, 2025 at 17:33
Perhaps this is just a case of omphaloskepsis, or perhaps I just used that word in response to your use of the word peristalsis, so that I could use a...
October 27, 2025 at 15:08
Nice. Maybe hang it from the ceiling and dress it up like a disco ball. I had a friend who rigged his wiper fluid hose back into the car so that he co...
October 27, 2025 at 14:39
That might be an overstatement. Words can refer to things. "Apple" can in fact mean the very apple we know, but that's only if that's how it's used. M...
October 27, 2025 at 12:45
Maybe black coal dust or graphite powder to create the miner look.
October 26, 2025 at 22:18
In college, this guy filled a record album sleeve (old school vinyl album cover) with powder and put it under some guy's dorm door and then stomped on...
October 26, 2025 at 20:32
That might have worked. The viscosity creates an issue. Paint isn't as thick. The pump you showed pumps .02 gallons per pump, but mine pumps out .125 ...
October 26, 2025 at 20:22
I don't think a meaning is use theory references understanding.
October 26, 2025 at 18:33
I suppose I should have presented my problem here for ideas first, although I couldn't locate an Archimedes screw pump online now that I just checked....
October 26, 2025 at 16:25
/uploads/resized/files/tg/5fvx7pi33ebdpx36.jpg In other news, I purchased a 5 gallon bucket of laundry detergent. Buying in bulk saves time and readie...
October 26, 2025 at 15:07
Do you just put all the ingredients in a bowl and serve it like a salad or do you cook it?
October 26, 2025 at 12:03
But this is just to prescribe an idiosyncratic language around rights that isn't generally how we speak. If a society legally permits men to subjugate...
October 26, 2025 at 03:58
I asked for a Real Madrid jersey for you.
October 25, 2025 at 17:45
I found a photo of you on your bear skin rug./uploads/resized/files/h7/12qnyc42o9nr9srd.png
October 25, 2025 at 15:41
My cat is fully conversant, understands everything, listens intently, never speaks, and does what she was going to do anyway. If my cat was a lion and...
October 25, 2025 at 14:51
My day is postponed until the cat decides to leave my chest. Could be minutes, could be hours.
October 25, 2025 at 12:28
Other than that they're social and intelligent, they're just like you. Just gentle ribbing between post mates.
October 25, 2025 at 00:39
I do as well. They are delicious.
October 24, 2025 at 18:47
I once had a cow that kicked over a latern that burned down all of Chicago.
October 24, 2025 at 18:47
Are you adopting the view of the Lubavitch Rebbe, who needs no further introduction, that of panentheism, that God is within all and transcends all? I...
October 24, 2025 at 16:12
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and acts like a duck it might still not be a duck I suppose is the argument. We then have to figure out ho...
October 24, 2025 at 15:39
Me apologies. I do care about the raven. I love that fucking raven. And typically I do care about the real individual, but it happens to be you, so I ...
October 24, 2025 at 14:23
Dude, you're like sooooo secular. What I meant was that intelligence was literally croaking above you in every place you've lived that it's reasonable...
October 24, 2025 at 13:46
Belief anchored only in a scientifically justified epistemology is the path to meaninglesness. Knowing that, we're all faced with the choice of justif...
October 24, 2025 at 12:14
Fried over scrambled. Soak up the yolks, but what bread? Got some pumpkin spice English muffins that smelled better than they tasted. Too heavy. Just ...
October 24, 2025 at 00:41
A good article on AI debating humans. Pardon the old technology and the splatter from my stir fry. /uploads/resized/files/en/jlursl7kjkohirfr.jpg
October 23, 2025 at 23:52
I don't agree with that. My point was that we can refuse to allow AI simply because we prefer humans and even if we just believe the worth of humanly ...
October 23, 2025 at 21:08
I thought about this, and maybe there's not a good answer. Your argument gives a nod to the form of life comments by Wittgenstein, suggesting we don't...
October 23, 2025 at 20:50
Alas, you are correct. I have been exposed the imposter, pretending an aristocrat, though identified at once the simple goat farmer I am. I foolishly ...
October 23, 2025 at 15:13
I've not the time for the superluous verbiage, eliding now the auxiliary "do", consistent with my pedigree. My speech shall henceforth reflect an erud...
October 23, 2025 at 14:58
"You ought think he the king" is a double elidement, first of the infinitive and then of the copula. Compare: "You ought to think he is the king." I'm...
October 23, 2025 at 13:56
Here's an article that addresses the issues we're dealing with: https://nfhs.org/stories/the-role-of-ai-in-debate-ethics-research-and-responsible-use ...
October 23, 2025 at 12:23
The Ouija board is a strained analogy because Ouija boards don't work. If they reliably provided accurate answers, I'd be hard pressed not to use them...
October 22, 2025 at 16:14
So, guys, I loaded this thread into AI for the solution to our quandary. Aside from the irony, who wants to know what it says? If so, why? If not, why...
October 22, 2025 at 00:16
My favorite joke is the one about the man who fell down the well because he couldn't see that well.
October 21, 2025 at 20:06