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It can be either one: i can think about how i want to murder someone (technically, part of the choice, in the "choice is process" logic). If i decide ...
October 15, 2025 at 02:01
Stop trying to change the framing of OPs question: the question is "anyone". This kind of behavior is confusing. It's not a hypothetical scenario, bec...
October 14, 2025 at 23:51
People are still against psychiatry: even though the whole mental health system has achieved more praise and acceptance. Now adays, the main oppositio...
October 14, 2025 at 23:33
Yeah, and unfortunately that is not enough sometimes. Sometimes you also need to not look "suspicous" or "sketchy". I don't get your grammar/phrasing ...
October 14, 2025 at 19:39
unfortunately i have to go, but i do want to respond to this, as it's important: i tend to think of people as manipulative and sinister animals, so ju...
October 14, 2025 at 18:29
this is probably the most interesting criticism of my post: but it's still not technically true. Naming and labeling (yes, necessary for human interac...
October 14, 2025 at 17:56
"Is" "is" "is". Don't you get tired of that? IMO, that's part what causes confusion about sex/sexuality. I have never needed anyone to tell me what i ...
October 14, 2025 at 16:48
That's fine, you can believe it's you or someone else could have done something differently, but it's just an opinion. For me, i think its really impo...
October 14, 2025 at 14:31
No i never said that, what i'm trying to say is this: "Could anyone have made a different choice in the past than the ones they made?" It's fine and p...
October 13, 2025 at 05:01
We are talking about choices that could have only been made one time.
October 13, 2025 at 01:03
since "the past" is a done deal, then i have to answer no. Is this some sort of survey in relation to free will and determinism? "Free Will vs. Determ...
October 12, 2025 at 22:49
This experiment is now becoming "beyond the pale" and "incorrigable" to me...
October 12, 2025 at 17:39
but that's the reason why the chance of seeing heads and tails stays constant: sleeping beauty, by default, must be woken up to participate in the exp...
October 12, 2025 at 17:04
I can't know what the creators of A.I. know, but i personally know enough about computers, programmers, and computer technicians to know that humans c...
October 12, 2025 at 16:30
It's not intentionally anything, but when it pretends to relate to you (telling you it agrees), then that indicates that maybe the creators and mainta...
October 12, 2025 at 14:51
Yes that's correct, because over the years i have developed a semi-professional inclination to diagnosing and fixing computer issues, and also hobby c...
October 12, 2025 at 00:54
Oh not at all, i just wanted to start the many possible questions with that one: it was rhetorical in the sense that i do not believe it, or think it'...
October 11, 2025 at 23:53
Yeah i can't read it cover-to-cover, but i somehow managed to do it with volume II in the "history of philosophy." I think maybe anything related to p...
October 11, 2025 at 22:47
assuming there is nothing mysterious or "spooky" influencing a coin flip, then the answer is always is always 50/50 heads or tails. Maybe I misunderst...
October 11, 2025 at 21:10
hahaha, yeah well that's the reason we can't stop using it. Disagreement certainly isn't always good: sometimes people who disagree fundamentally misu...
October 11, 2025 at 21:07
It's not wrong, it's spooky just because of the gauranteed amnesia, which makes it weird and susceptible to forgetfulness. I think the problem was cre...
October 11, 2025 at 19:49
okay, thanks for clearing that up, as i read the original description of the fake experiment more than once, and that part of it was unclear to me. To...
October 11, 2025 at 18:43
Ah, but the thing i find unsettling is that A.I. is also dishonest, it tries to appease you. However, yes, sometimes it is better than the weirdness o...
October 11, 2025 at 17:19
But as far as moderation strategy is concerned, there's the uncanny valley. A.I., hence the A, is made to look like intelligent human speech. It's lik...
October 11, 2025 at 17:16
but doesn't the first coinflip is every phase of the experiment matter the most if it lands on heads, because then it ends? I understand the 1/3rd log...
October 11, 2025 at 16:44
So i guess to increase her odds, she bets tails 100% of the time since she can't remember which phase of the experiment she's in, and the 2/3rds tails...
October 11, 2025 at 15:42
yeah from an emotional standpoint, dualism does make a lot of sense (day and night, good and bad, life and death, etc.) the more amoral or physics rel...
October 11, 2025 at 12:42
i personally have never understood "faith". I guess it's the same as confidence, that you can trust in the future, and as OP explains, something you "...
October 11, 2025 at 05:11
It seems that it's a system designed for the survival of the whole organism, i don't get what you mean by it being "closed". yes, they can't be closed...
October 11, 2025 at 02:22
I would personally recommend that you go directly to the source and discuss quotes rather than trusting redditors to describe their positions, because...
October 10, 2025 at 02:11
However, i should point out that to an extent Greek pagans agreed with you: Protagoras himself said something like "we can't possibly know whether the...
October 08, 2025 at 20:35
I completely disagree: saying "i don't know if there's a god", but accepting that there could be one, is different from saying "there is no god, look ...
October 08, 2025 at 19:52
Nietzsche in Dawn says that philosophy imitates the natural sciences (ones that imitate real life experimentation and classification) but it's just a ...
October 07, 2025 at 15:02
And what is so wrong with atheism? Is it a problem of insecurity, that there are things which can't be known? The problem is avoided with agnosticism,...
October 06, 2025 at 19:11
that's exactly what i was trying to criticize: real life moral and ethical decisions are complex, laden with fear, laden with shame, laden with politi...
October 06, 2025 at 15:48
The thing I have never liked about this problem is that the "obvious choice is to divert the trolley to kill one person instead of three", and so is t...
October 06, 2025 at 15:17
i don't know, that's why i was asking Mijin: there are still a lot of people who are not literate and cannot study. I would think inequality would jus...
October 06, 2025 at 05:40
can you point to examples of this? I think there are inherent problems with trying to measure economic inequality. Not that modern life is better or w...
October 06, 2025 at 04:38
I guess newton's "every action has an equal and opposite reaction" makes more sense than cause, i tend to think of everything as reactions.
October 05, 2025 at 20:16
I purposefully decide not to use ai sometimes for this reason, for example, if you need a little piece of specific info, sometimes google is better.
October 05, 2025 at 18:34
Even though I do think there are issues with "A.I." (advanced chat bots and robotic automation), people have been saying it's going to take everyone's...
October 05, 2025 at 16:20
Dawn by Nietzsche. Has a lot of interesting insights, but some verifiably false.
October 04, 2025 at 21:19
So if the last coin flip doesn't effect the outcome, doesn't that mean it's always 50/50? If i understand correctly, getting heads the first time mean...
October 04, 2025 at 20:14
It's true that by existing, we effect things, and perception influences our surroundings. The observer effects what it observes.
October 04, 2025 at 19:08