Yep, that problem's been around for a while now. That will be fine. When/if it happens. OK It would, yes. So I ask you yet again once more and for the...
That's not helpful to people who haven't read, or can't remember all your previous threads. It works equally well to convey falsehoods, misconceptions...
There is nothing there to refute: three sides are what defines "triangle. " One might generalize from that a bigger truth: "the definition of any thin...
So do many people feel that - only not about the same truths you consider undeniable. And how does one test for "undeniability"? How does one go about...
Conceive, yes. At least, according their own code of morality and standards. Achieve, no. Quite the reverse: having the unique ability to conceive of ...
That is an immense existential threat, right there. How many of these clever machines, and how much of their capability is dedicated to weapons of mas...
That was my whole argument regarding all those "crowning achievement" superlatives early in the thread. I wasn't putting humans down; merely pointing ...
Who says they can't speak? We don't speak their language; that doesn't make them inferior. Look, instead, at their system of values, which is formed b...
Where does one normally see confirmed evildoers? I suspect the situation itself creates a bias. I have seen people happy because they were doing somet...
Are they? In academics, maybe. In life, not so much. In political life, economy is central: it frames so many issues, influences so many decisions, de...
You might consider asking them yourself before demanding clear answers on muddled topics As usual, it depends. Good or bad act? Good or bad person? In...
In what way good or bad? In which category? Subjective, moral, legal, social or statistical? Intent, causation, character or outcome? From what perspe...
Aha. It's about 50,000,000 shades of grey. There was a bit of human history even before 1939 and a bit of evolutionary history even before humans lear...
If you want this proposition to be taken seriously, you might look to the language you employ. Also a few of the assumptions you seem to have consider...
There is a lot of that - an assumption of superiority, even supremacy - in all human cultures. It's an almost inescapable tenet of our self-regard as ...
That is a serious problem. Creation? Apex? The role of man? The Biblical delusion? We should have been able to come with something more plausible by n...
Since humans invented both concepts, and humans describe and define the world and everything in it as a reflection of themselves, humans must possess ...
Given. I can't imagine life, or any other ongoing process in nature, taking place in the absence of consistent order and constant laws. Also given, th...
Culture changes. We have become so many and so technological that distance communication is more common now than face-to-face. I wouldn't be surprised...
I don't think it's 'covert'; just more palatable than preaching. In authoritarian regimes, any expression counter to the administration's narrative po...
No, that would make it a completely different problem. Machines, however omni and benevolent they eventually become, began their evolution from adding...
What if no human has more or less value to the god than any other human life, or any other life, or any life at all? You can't know. What if the god d...
32 intel agencies without oversight are a lot more dangerous and expensive. Nobody can investigate them, by their very nature. And every developed nat...
Yes. In large populations, that can't be helped. In small ones, each person can be considered individually, as can each situation. But even in a syste...
Justice and fairness require that persons be classified into groups and judged according to a uniform standard for each group. A child, or adult with ...
It's not just AI. Citizens really are being watched, by several agencies. Paranoia in the US - and, incidentally, but not accidentally, lots of other ...
Well somebody made them! Evidently, that somebody wasn't you, because laws are quite a bit older than you, but it was somebody who was also part of so...
Great. So if they say it's okay to kill the people they don't like, you afford them the right to do so. Even if you are one of the the people they don...
It doesn't. That is a word, and nothing more. If you have a solid (when frozen) definition of ocean, it provides an object or image to place into a se...
The sentence can be modified; the definition of "ocean" can be modified. You can even modify both to the point of gibberish, but that still won't make...
Are they still technically "oceans", or do we just use the term because they resemble bodies of water that we observe on Earth? The same can be said o...
Not disputing the truth of facts. I was asking you whether there is any extra information conveyed by repeating the definition of something, and furth...
Of course it's true: that's how it was invented: What is a triangle? A closed figure with three sides and three angles. What is an ocean? Can you defi...
And yet they disagree, both regarding their own nature and 'rights'. And yet they readily commit unfair acts from a young age, unless their elders pre...
Where do these 'natural rights' of human beings come from? What is 'justice'? In nature, the best adapted genetic material survives in offspring; some...
It is not a T/F proposition; it's an opinion or observation by a conscious entity, made in imprecise language. In order to be true or false, its non-s...
That is not a T/F statement; it is a subjective judgment. A thermometer measures increments of heat; it does not indicate truth or falsehood. A day is...
The whole apple sequence is. 1. Red = sweet: F 2. Apples grow on trees: T Neither statement, nor their respective falsehood and truth, is affected by ...
So far, nobody wanted to make government smaller - at least in the US. Just more efficient - without suggesting the means whereby it is to be accompli...
I'm using different words that mean different things, because I intend to convey different meanings. The truth or falsehood of a statement, such as "M...
That may be so, but it's not in the example you presented. No, it can't. It can, however, render it inapplicable, irrelevant or nonsensical. Just as y...
http://www.netage.com/economics/gov/images-org/gov_chart-landscape.pdf That's a chart of US federal government departments. Are they all necessary? If...
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