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that looks fake as hell though :( (that's not how you hack a drone).
August 30, 2017 at 22:14
There is no one best set of particular morals for all environments across all of time. Different factors can render different policies and approaches ...
August 30, 2017 at 22:09
It's much easier to identify undesirable or "bad actions" (actions which morally we ought not perform) than it is to identify "good actions" (actions ...
August 30, 2017 at 21:31
Run by, no. Constrained by, yes.
August 30, 2017 at 21:00
Compared to the value of the drugs which can be smuggled through it, they're easily dug.
August 30, 2017 at 20:46
You mean, morally opposed?
August 30, 2017 at 20:44
Depends on your moral views...
August 30, 2017 at 20:26
So like. The wall, eh? We Canadians don't know much about walls, but we do know about big wide open spaces! The US-Mexico border happens to be a big w...
August 30, 2017 at 20:25
Do you honestly believe that slavery, child labor, genocide, colonialism, and cruelty to non-human animals were or are "the means of the enlightenment...
August 30, 2017 at 00:54
In the 1600's there were about half a billion living humans. Today there are over seven billion living humans... Life expectancy in 1600 was about 40 ...
August 29, 2017 at 23:50
I would very much you to explain how the wave property of quantum particles causes "free" behavior in computers, OR, i would very much like you to exp...
August 24, 2017 at 21:08
Do they fail or behave randomly because of quantum fluctuations? No, only a quantum computer would be affected by this... Hint: the human brain is not...
August 24, 2017 at 20:53
How come our computers work so reliably? Why don't quantum fluctuations cause them to exhibit free and random behavior? The evidence for determinism i...
August 24, 2017 at 20:49
That's a fair enough distinction, although I don't personally see evidence that any (decent) writer is behind it all... But don't you cling to the not...
August 24, 2017 at 20:44
to say a choice is fated is to say its determined by what precedes it. "predictable" on the other hand is an entirely different sack of eels. We canno...
August 24, 2017 at 20:27
The main knee jerk reaction to determinism is to somehow feel that because our choices are predetermined they are therefore less valuable or important...
August 24, 2017 at 20:23
Really really bad, and permanent (with no reprieve or reward of any kind).
August 24, 2017 at 20:19
How can you know what choice you will make before you actually make it (hint: you can't). Once you've made a choice, how do you know that some compone...
August 24, 2017 at 20:09
Is the human condition an objective authority? I reckon it's not, but we ARE humans, and as such a morality which serves and pertains to the human con...
August 24, 2017 at 19:56
The "laws" I'm interested in are built into reality in the same way that an ideal chess strategy is built into a particular configuration of chess pie...
August 24, 2017 at 19:41
I never wanted to accept gravity. I always wanted to fly, but reality kept pulling me back down to earth. In the end I accepted gravity because that's...
August 23, 2017 at 20:44
Do you think random/probabilistic quantum fluctuations did the writing?
August 23, 2017 at 20:39
Alack, alas. How could i ever compete with the ultimate standard of "your everyday experience". If you wish to hold faith in the idea that your brain ...
August 23, 2017 at 20:23
Forgive me, but is pontificating about faith and experience the best way to conduct this debate? If I have faith in determinism, then you have faith i...
August 23, 2017 at 19:53
As I stated initially some sort of non-local hidden variable theory might be the case, which can explain the chance element in the spin and position o...
August 23, 2017 at 19:38
Why? I'm not religious. I believe in the pervasiveness of causality because everything I experience seems to have an imminent cause. We experience cau...
August 23, 2017 at 08:26
It states that the outcome is not knowable prior to checking it, but also states that the results will tend to resolve based on a particular distribut...
August 23, 2017 at 03:48
The evidence that refutes determinism must come in the form of evidence which proves some kind randomness necessarily exists, but again, quantum uncer...
August 23, 2017 at 03:33
In short: determinism might be right to due some kind of hidden non-local variable we have yet to discover. But, quantum uncertainty in the "spin" of ...
August 23, 2017 at 00:37
The most universal and coherent moral foundations are composed of shared sentiment (i.e: our shared desire to go on living and to live freely) and "hu...
August 23, 2017 at 00:16
There's a tricky political minefield surrounding this subject (this doc was released in 2015 when the conflict was less pronounced) but I do tend to a...
August 22, 2017 at 01:04
"As the darkly cloaked druidic figures encircled the arcane obsidian altar, the tallest among them stepped forward and opened the DSM that lay atop it...
August 18, 2017 at 20:09
I understand what you mean when you say "they haven't changed their sex or gender", but isn't that really only relevant if we're going after a scienti...
August 17, 2017 at 19:23
How can we reliably say this is true? Perhaps in our modern age so filled with comforts, and since pain and trauma are infrequent, they seem more sign...
August 04, 2017 at 20:00
Happiness can be a kind of purpose, and in case you haven't noticed, people tend to do what they think/feel will make them happy. When we achieve our ...
August 04, 2017 at 19:52
We have out-paced mere survival concerns yes (although they trail us very closely), like Tolstoy's life of luxury, it's this fact that affords us the ...
August 04, 2017 at 19:08
By "deal with such people" I presume you mean "convince them to be happy without ultimate and objective purpose"... Seldom do I bother with an attempt...
August 03, 2017 at 21:15
Each of us is the main character in our own movie, and sometimes life is nonsensical as we haphazardly traipse into each other's lives. But the epic t...
August 03, 2017 at 05:36
I'm not implying that pain and pleasure are symmetrical but that they have a relationship between them. Severe trauma ~might~ have longer lasting effe...
August 02, 2017 at 21:32
This is not true in m experience... I believe that the more suffering someone experiences, the more sensitive they then become to the alleviation of s...
August 02, 2017 at 19:38
There's no objective "purpose of life" in that we have no apparent designer whose will and intent we can appeal to, nor do we come pre-programmed with...
August 02, 2017 at 18:38
The particular pieces that I'm into change over time, and I'm generally not interested in them for philosophical reasons, they have purely aesthetic a...
July 30, 2017 at 07:07
"Race" has no formal definition, so I went ahead and defined it for myself to facilitate the discussion at hand. If you think that standard english de...
July 29, 2017 at 21:37
How do you know I used it incorrectly though? It seems like anytime i've typed "race" you've just said "Aha! incorrect!" If the way I use "race" is in...
July 29, 2017 at 21:17
How do you know the meaning I intended when I used the word race? (how do you ignore my intended use after I've clarified twice?)
July 29, 2017 at 21:08
I don't see how we can continue the discussion if every time I use a certain word even if just to reference it, even after clarifying my usage, you re...
July 29, 2017 at 21:02
It's fascinating how often discussions of late end with "that's not what I said" or "that's not what you said"... If all you required was that I repla...
July 29, 2017 at 19:36
To actually get into and tease out the superficial and unhelpful elements within or of a particular theory seems to be what this postmodern approach l...
July 29, 2017 at 18:46
What did he say about it then? Care to offer a correction? As far as I know he said that science doesn't progress toward certainty because each time w...
July 28, 2017 at 23:44
How are they very different? Can you offer some definitions? You would agree then, there are evident genetic differences between ethnic groups?
July 28, 2017 at 23:43