Metaphysician Undercover

Well, I'm not going to offer a big defence of my interpretation, as I've done in the past, because this just produces an argumentative atmosphere. But...

There's nothing wrong with spying. It's how we find out what those who are not forthcoming in their admissions, are really up to. Probable cause is no...

No such problems need to be encountered. We observe that human beings act of free will, and we observe a hole in conservation laws, losses which are c...

To remind you of our earlier discussion, I read "object" in this section as oneself, the human subject. The idea that the concept is immediate has bee...

Why do you find it odd that I can move away from other things? Can't you?

The laws of physics are descriptions concerning the interactions of inanimate objects. These descriptions do not apply to the freely willed acts of li...

Ha ha, of course I believe it, it's obviously the truth. "Tribal memory" is incoherent nonsense. You know this, yet you refuse to accept it, because t...

Where can i find these laws, so I can read, interpret, and decide whether or not to follow them? And if they have no morality or legal standing why wo...

Nor do the laws of nature have any existence. So what's the point in making this mention?

This is an interpretive conclusion. LLMS do not need to be understood in this way, itis your preferred way. And what I tried to explain is that I beli...

The fed cuts rates when things slow down. In other words demand has been stifled, not redirected.

I was never talking about literacy. That would be the assumption which would be begging the question. I was talking about the use of symbols as a memo...

What I see is a distinction being made between the traditional bourgeois timelessness, a sort of presentism which holds the Now of experience as the o...

Sure, define things in a way which supports your hypothesis. That's called begging the question. Discussion is then pointless. What are you asking for...

I see that you are ignoring cave art, and the use of stone monuments as memory aids. No, I just want to include all the evidence. Often the "standard ...

You're still not getting anywhere with this type of talk. A word is a representation of a concept, and manipulating words according to rules is reason...

No, I was commenting on apokrisis' proposed evolution of language, indicating that I think he leaves out the most important aspect. That important asp...

Sure, because we live in a post unification world. Remember, my hypothesis is that the unification is what allowed for the evolutionary explosion of i...

@"apokrisis" When you went to school, did you take notes? If so, was the purpose of those notes to communicate with others?

No thanks, it's outside the scope of the thread. The two are based in completely different types of intentions, writing having the basic intent of som...

There is nothing said about right, or correctness. How can your conclusion be supported? I think it is more like he is stating this as an observation....

I am saying that I believe that writing and talking, originally developed completely distinct from one another, being completely different things for ...

OK, that sounds reasonable. We all have our idiosyncrasies. I suppose I have to "pin down" something, i.e. to assume to have understood something, in ...

I think that originally written language evolved completely separate from spoken language, the former being for the purpose of a memory aid, the latte...

What appears important to me, in this section, is the temporal references. The prior section had ended with a passage about how existential philosophy...

You mean a hell effect don't you? And I thought shaving cream was the best way to create the hell-like situation.

Oh yeah, my brother read about that when we were kids. And of course, we had to test it out. Boy does it ever blow! Sometimes I wonder how I ever mana...

The Archimedes screw is very common as the grain elevator.

Suction is far better. It lifts airplanes off the ground.

Let me point out to you how this statement is self-contradicting. That it was commodified implies that it continued in this commodified form, and that...

Hi fFilip, and welcome to tpf It looks like you'll fit in well here. I'm not an administrator, but here's a general rule of thumb. Any proposed discus...

Instability makes money for people. So it's questionable whether the cause of that is "misunderstanding" or intent.

I admit, I could never frame "risk" with a definition which would make it universally bad. But in thinking about it I see that there is quite a number...

I don't see how the fact that the LLMs have gotten much better at doing what they do, justifies your conclusion that what they do now is categorically...

You are changing the description now. Before, the description had the chatbox come up with a "name as the most probable next word". Now, the chatbox c...

This is not true. To predict the name of the murderer in the novel, does not require that the LLM does any of that. It requires only that the LLM is a...

I think this is a false example. The option is usually whether or not to marry a specific person, not whether or not to get married in general. And, i...

OK, that's one way of looking at it. But being "absorbed into institutional authority" doesn't necessarily imply being "tamed by it" rather than "subv...

I agree, information is everywhere. But I differentiate between information and knowledge. And in my view information is not the source of knowledge b...

I don't think so, just like a book is not a source of knowledge. It is a representation, not a source.

How is that puzzling? I read a book, reread it, compare it, in my mind with material from other authors, interpret it in numerous ways, in an attempt ...

Where do you get the sense that the realization was missed? A wave is a temporal event, it comes to an end, and its energy is dispersed. But this does...

Why is that a puzzle to you? A book doesn't do philosophy but we do philosophy with it. The library doesn't do philosophy but we do philosophy with it...

Look what you are saying. It can just be turned around. Not getting married was the mistaken choice which shouldn't have been made. Rejecting good cho...

Generally, agreement is counterproductive to philosophy.

The tool which allows writers to produce well written posts is knowledge. There is no need to place any restrictions on that tool.

Not necessarily agreeing, but trying to understand. I cannot agree or disagree until I adequately understand. However, I think that is what is intende...

That's the trick. Idiosyncrasies are proper to the individual, and everyone has them, we cannot escape that, and trying to escape them makes them more...

This does very little for me. Suppose raw experience is as you say, without, and therefore prior to, all form, etc.. That might signify the priority o...

I find it amazing that you seem to think that an AI which distinguishes between human and AI writing is impossible. I think that this is exactly the t...