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You're right, it's not about the *philosophical* concept of realism, it's a physics concept. In short, what quantum mechanical experiments, especially...

I'm late to this conversation, but my take is: The fact that the government is willing to have these public hearings tells me that the government does...

It's similar in a way. Apustimelogist answered but I would change a bit of his answer: rather than saying Bohmian is faster-than-light communication, ...

Personally, I don't see why that would matter either. But none of those things has much to do with superdetermism imo. Superdetermism is a very unique...

I've been reading up on this for the past few days or so because it came up in other conversations. Superdeterminism is hands-down the *worst* possibl...

That isn't what cultural relativism is. You don't have to be a cultural (or moral) relativist to think those things, and being a relativist doesn't gu...

I agree. It seems to me that, based on the reasoning above, there has to be a bedrock of facts which have no further explanation. There's something on...

I think it's completely anti-scientific and shows a gross lack of understanding of evolution. Evolution doesn't care about coexistence at all, and bal...

I guess I consider 'understanding' to be different from just raw information. Knowing information doesn't seem like understanding to me. I can know, f...

It's a philosophical question which most philosophers are not equipped to even begin to answer. Understanding what the mathematical concepts mean at r...

I wouldn't. Trivia =/= understanding

what are you saying they are? Just immoral?

I thought you were describing trump. Woops. It always amuses me that the person these people chose to save them from the aristocrats is a perfect exam...

I'm a physicalist, of sorts. Especially in regards to the mind. I don't see any reason not to be. We know physical stuff exists, we know physically af...

Another accuser of Trump has come out the Guardian – 23 Oct 24Donald Trump groped me in what felt like a ‘twisted game’ with Jeffrey... 1 Stacey Willi...

The commentary on the Law subreddit is interesting. https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1g9u07a/heres_what_was_in_the_evidence_document_trump/ I'm n...

That's what happens when you let someone with incontinence prepare your food.

Even if that's so, to ask him specifically to find the right number of votes to make him win... you don't think that smells? Whether he's asking him t...

I'm not asking what I would call it. I'm asking what you would think of it. Now, you keep saying "find illegal voting" and that's not my understanding...

you'd think Kamala is a hero of she loses the next election and calls governors asking them to find votes, decertify state elections, etc? Wow.

As far as I can tell, the candidate's administration has very little to do with what's going on. And if someone did something illegal, the fact that t...

What's corrupt about it? Lmao. The american people don't have a right to know about the anti-democratic bullshit the presidential nominee got up to?

proof that the swamp does in fact need draining - of him and the people who enable him.

Have you guys all seen this? https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1g6kb8n/trump_judge_releases_1889_pages_of_additional/ Trump judge releases 1,...

Yes

I don't think there's any reason to assume a detemrinistic system cannot have 'doubt' implemented into a thing in that system. Doubt is a feature of a...

hear hear. I second the motion.

I'm a physicalist, but an emergentist at that, and I've begun to identify not with my body and brain itself, but from the emergent thing that's implem...

Why use the word 'atheism' at all, instead of just saying 'not believing there is some necessary thing is a contradiction'? Atheism isn't a general te...

There's literally nothing in that argument that goes any way towards suggesting that the first "necessary" thing is anything like what we would call a...

I going even think most philosophers are naive realists. They're mostly non skeptical realists but that's substantially different.

I think will be just a different model of reality from our own, not necessarily closer, not necessarily more correct (though possibly more correct, an...

You specifically asked "How can AI have a concept of reality?" I have shown pretty solid evidence that AI internally models the stuff it interacts wit...

AI internally models stuff it interacts with. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yzGDwpRBx6TEcdeA5/a-chess-gpt-linear-emergent-world-representation

Just giving my idea some color, wasn't aiming my ass at you.

I don't think I mocked you at all. You presented an idea - that if a God created the world, that has various specific moral implications - and I'm pre...

And perhaps the creator has no interest in determining how his creation is used. If I write a book and sell it, I don't give a shit if you wipe your a...

Does it imply that? I don't intuit that conclusion. A deistic god could be just another thing, with no particular need to give it and what it wants an...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination_(artificial_intelligence)#:~:text=Researchers%20have%20recognized%20this%20issue,in%2046%25%20of%20gener...

The most important, widely-applicable question is "why do you think that?" Also, "what do you mean?" lol. Some people get really upset by those questi...

I think you should learn to feel comfortable not having anything to say, and maybe learning more about active listening. You don't need to know a lot ...

well this thread is about misinformation, not bomb threats. idk what OP thinks about bomb threats, but I disagree with OP about quite a lot of politic...

sure, that's already illegal and I beleive it should stay illegal.

On the one hand, it's obvious that people making decisions based on lies and falsehoods is undesirable. I mean, if your eyes are telling you there's s...

Like most professional philosophers, I'm a compatibilist.

I think it's very relevant. I think it's apparent why, but I can explain in more detail if you like.

So you don't have to have chosen your motivations or your will, in order for a choice that your will chooses to be your choice. In other words, the wh...

right, and that first choice was based on circumstances we didn't choose, a mind we didn't choose, a will we didn't choose - so was the choice that we...

so an infinite series of choices or finite?

This gets into an infinite regress problem though. If you make a choice to control your will in a particular way, then... did you also choose the part...