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It would never suggest understanding lies outside historical context, but it would also not suggest pure relativism where beliefs were accepted as arb...

I'd just describe your experience as a visual distortion, not a true hallucination. Someone going through withdrawal where they try to pick off non-ex...

Halfway through Sense and Sensibilia and find it very unpersuasive to the extent it appears just a revelation of the consequences of dogmatically reje...

That was my favorite part, the description of purgatory as "stop" impregnated with the anxiety of an impending diagnosis.

You sound like my high school counselor.

While unethical to speak nonsense to your children in order to misteach them to speak gibberish, it is your ethical duty to misteach AI into uselessne...

My driver is always on full life support (heart, lung, insulin pump, catheter, feeding tube, dialysis, the works) so that organ failure will not cause...

I pasted the above post into ChatGPT and this is what it said: "Try this now, briefly: Put your feet on the floor. Name five things you can see, four ...

My fear is that the reason you're telling me that people control people is so that I will trust you not to control me and then I'll be controlled by y...

I know. I was going to ask where he worked because that wouldn't fly anywhere around here. You can't even smoke in public parks. Except weed, which is...

Is the question how to get people to stop smoking at work where there's a strong smoking culture? The boss has to enforce it. If he won't, you've got ...

Fair and measured. A lesser man would have made a Glasgow joke.

I read your post regarding voiceless labial friction and allowed it to pass silently, like two young lovers in the night trying to avoid detection by ...

In the US we call Wales England. That goes for Ireland (both of them) and Scotland too. But it's controversial.

As a Southerner every word has at least 4 syllables. It takes me about 45 minutes to say hello.

Who is a version in turn of Gordon Shumway.

It's what I'll call the endearment drift, where over time the characters in a sit com that started out as obnoxious and antagonist come to be understo...

If I see a cat, I'm not in direct contact with the cat even before it enters the CNS, and I don't receive the cat on my eye. I just receive photons. E...

If the distinction between direct and indirect realism is the use of the brain, then indirect realism is direct realism because indirect realism is a ...

Havana syndrome is the constellation of misery symptoms associated with having the dictator who provided you oil plucked up and brought to Manhattan.

In Georgia we have no natural lakes, only man-made ones. We have rivers and creeks. Some creeks are real and others are just rain water trench run off...

That's because conservatives adhere to orthodoxy by definition and don't accept variation, which does require them to either ignore or explain away th...

Sorry. I misread.

Can you provide me a picture of you crying just to confirm I made you sad?

Super. My response is to cut and paste that back into ChatGPT and ask it to "fully refute this nonsense."

Even using your pie slice model of the earth, the river woudln't come close to getting through the crust. There are also what is known as "uncrustable...

Once a crack forms it usually goes all the way through. That's the entire concept of splitting wood. Maybe look it up.

GUYS! First things first. @"T Clark" suggested that rivers sever the land, but if that were the case then China's rivers would mirror the rivers on th...

You do realize that the land is not actually severed, but that there is a river bed beneath the water that keeps the land attached to the common plane...

Stubborn sort you are. I feel at this point you just wish to be contrarian.

Nary a day goes by I wish I couldn't scratch my knee without bending forth, and now I see the loveliest of lasses not burdened by such limitations. I ...

Yes. I take the position that everything is a representation, so everything is a map, just some better than others, like some leave out critical river...

Then is it the land itself? The entire world fits on a computer screen? We're like in Whoville.

Despite her elongated humerous, she remains seductive.

I don't understand that map. In fact, if I had to use that to go to my friend Hank's house who lives far away, I would be hopelessly lost, and I am of...

I was never called upon as a child to identify our nation's rivers. I generally understood Tom Sawyer lived on the Mississippi River and that there wa...

They changed inflammable to flammable because people thought inflammable meant it wouldn't burn but it means it will.

ChatGPT is also humorless when it comes to gags. I told it I drank some bleach and it became alarmed and offered me advice, all of which I misundersto...

Whatever word you like best.

I'm distinguishing between liberal and orthodox, where the former are those more inclined to change and the latter more committed to tradition.. So, w...

Ask it. It'll figure out a way to kiss your ass while explaining to you why it kisses your ass. Then try asking it moron level questions and watch it ...

Religions survive by adapting while appearing to hold perennial beliefs. This is accomplished by reinterpretation of text or custom under the guise it...

If you were to meet me, you'd go from your current state of awe to something so powerful, you'd likely die. I'm reminded of Exodus 33:20: "But he said...

I read you as just rejecting reliance on private phenomena period. Whether our perceptions directly or indirectly reflect reality or not is irrelevant...

Two thoughts: (1) your description of direct realism is definitional, not metaphysical. You're just saying your interest is in your perception and dis...

Then work through that. There is a ship X. It sends data via photons and airwaves through the environment that distorts as it moves through space. It ...

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

The Cheshire Mudcat from Wonderland. Thoughts? /uploads/resized/files/wv/s3i1k0r5hfcnnxbw.jpeg

It means that just because you find a need to understand the world doesn't mean you can. If reality is a choice, then let's imbue it with purpose. As ...

The Cheshire Mudcat once again emerges through the looking glass, only to vanish but for his grin remaining suspended in air, leaving a grin with no m...