VagabondSpectre

It's impossible to talk to me because I committed a typographical error which you were able to notice? Are you here to defend Kant or the "parabolic w...

I can only really speak for myself, but there are layers of moral barriers: Greed and selfishness are the outer layer, Locke's social contract is one ...

So what's the parable behind the binding of Issac? Oh yea that's right, total submission to god's will. Great moral fiber that. P.S You're making clai...

Some laws contained in the old testament are unequivocally barbaric. Do you disagree? This was just a humorous analogy and not a statement of actual C...

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There's something peculiar about the statement "Don't trust what you observe blindly", but yes, we would say that. Empiricism is about testing predict...

Well in some situations quantity is all we can achieve. Economic theory is a good example of how we orient parts of our society around what we think w...

It can in the sense that societal laws are bargains we strike (bargains which we want to work and be mutually beneficial/practical). If laws are indee...

Think of it like this: not-illegal Legal just means whatever the laws are. If something is not criminalized/made illegal by them, then it's legal. We ...

We can define it as the immoral killing of someone though...

Directly comparable no, but the issue I'm outlining is that there are all kinds of hypothetical deities out there which form the basis of theistic bel...

Jesus must have been pretty chill for the most part... But every now and then he gets this infinitely stern and terrifying look on his face and just s...

If legalizing murder reduced murder rates so much that the public agreed it is a better moral stratagem for reducing murder (which is still an immoral...

Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding... I don't bastardize scripture, I interpret it quite fairly. And the...

It's not, no. I prefer to leave it undefined because it's a term used ad hoc by preachers and pastors at large (it changes with their usage). Generall...

I think the emergence of "personal relationships with god" concepts were specifically in reaction to the fact that the Christian clergy long held a mo...

All I'll say is that intuition can be impressively powerful, but it mustn't be blindly trusted. I too am open to the possibility that through learning...

It would be a wonderful world indeed of all philosophy was rational. But most atheists don't say "god does not exist" and claim it as knowledge. When ...

"Agnostic theism" fairly describes a large number of religious attitudes toward the nature of their own belief in god. Reason logic and evidence are c...

Some atheists possess disbelief, some do not. (hard and soft-atheists respectively). What's common between both positions is specifically: lacking bel...

You're ignoring the main connotation of agnosticism which is "skeptical of knowledge", not "abstains from belief or disbelief in god". Many people are...

Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For a...

You do realize agnosticism is a position about know-ability and not about existence? The way you're employing it is in a bastardized form.

The difference between hard atheism and soft atheism (also known as strong/positive and weak/negative atheism respectively) is the distinction that yo...

I condone the genocide of the entire coconut race if I'm honest. Especially the rum. I do find it interesting though that all the examples of immorali...

My morality stems from values I derive through experience (values which are shared by others). They matter because that's how we feel about them. Imag...

Out of curiosity, on what basis might you consider something to be immoral if not harmful? In other words, if something is not harmful what makes it i...

I would say we're each born with a uniquely shaped hole (or it grows into a unique shape). Want is present in the human condition in general, regardle...

Then take action. report/block/ignore them from your feeds, ban them from your personal spaces. Keep your profiles private.

Well if they deserve "hate", then what makes hateful people so different from the people they hate? Sure using profanity and issuing threats is differ...

North Korea might be bat shit crazy as a nation, but they still must have sane military and economic strategists. They can barely stay afloat while in...

We dissallow Japan from having a standing army capable of invading another nation (or at least used to, do we still?) because of that whole deal from ...

I know that China has used them for quite some time as an easily exploitable trading partner. Really China is probably the reason why they've been abl...

What would North Korea gain from using nukes offensively? They want to unify the Koreas, not blow them up... They're also well aware that if they actu...

Hey Mac, let me take a whack at it... "It would be a contradiction from god's perspective to expect humans to understand why he makes them suffer..." ...

What do you mean by intimately tied to physical regulation (in ways that ANN's cannot be)?. Sensory input is used and encoded by existing ANN's to con...

Another conclusion also seems eminent from your argument: 1. The parameters of a free market are informed by market forces 2. Market forces are precis...

The issue I suppose is that there's no good grounds for discerning when semiosis does and does not occur such that such that I can be satisfied a suff...

If digital computation requires infintie data to represent actual dynamical criticality (particular physical states and the laws of physics as they ar...

Hardly. I've already clarified that laws describe behavior. How we informally use words for convenience hardly amounts to "materialist assumption".

I'm desperately trying to understand your argument (that the machines we build cannot be minds or that the machines (learning machines) we currently b...

So you're saying that the lack inherent in the human condition is freedom and freedom from suffering? (that's what I gather from the news, feel free t...

I realize that traditional computation is not analagous to a mind, but normal computation is not what I'm suggesting might be able to make the matter-...

Matter follows a set of physical laws which govern it's behavior is another way of saying "there is consistency in the way matter behaves". The way ma...

The basic rules of the system (physics) guide the apparent self-organization of the system. So it's not really "self-organizing" it's just that we're ...

I'm no positivist prepper, but I would say I've got a few choice stakes laying around... Like most things we'll probably all have to settle for an uns...

Computers can translate one language into another without any actual understanding of language. To a computer the data (a greek text in this example) ...

Newtonian physics carries on working. Uncertainty inherent at the quantum scale collapses and gives way to classical particle behavior at the larger s...

I've been using the words information and data loosely because in a way that's what I'm interested in investigating. When you look at a photograph on ...

Unless hard material indeterminism is indeed what you're arguing for (switches of un-caused wobbliness) I would happily abandon my disagreement that i...