Relativist

There is no reliable evidence of disciples being tortured to death for their beliefs about Jesus. There was sporadic persecution by Rome for Christian...

God's nature establishes some truths that can't be contradicted. It still boils down to the logically possible. BTW, I found a transcript wherein Crai...

Craig agrees that omnipotence entails the ability to do anything that is logically possible. It is not a limitation to be unable to do the logically i...

Thanks for clarifying the question- sorry I had missed it. Regarding the question "are we in a simulation?" I interpret this as similar to "is solipsi...

The Turing Test is passed by fooling people into believing there's a human giving responses in a conversation. This is feasible today at least within ...

Probably the right thing, sure - but only if the particular situation has been anticipated and programmed. I have in mind situations that aren't antic...

If we are building it, then we are building in the motivations we want it to have. Asimov's 3 laws seem reasonable.

It depends on how you define thinking. Digital computers can certainly apply logic, and Artificial Neural Networks can perform pattern recognition. On...

Machines do lots of things better than we do, but they can't think creatively. Self-driving cars are possible, but their programming is very different...

Sure: for proof of concept, it should be fine to produce some rudimentary intentionality, at the levels of some low level animals like cockroaches. Te...

The possibly insurmountable challenge is to build a machine that has a sense of self, with motivations.

This NY Times Article indicates Bradley had a falling out with Wade, and subsequently helped Merchant build her case against Willis and Wade - implyin...

My bad: I didn't think about the fact this would constitute solicitation. I've edited that out. I tend to assume scam unless it's verifiably from a kn...

A gofundme was set up to help Donald pay his just judgement. IN the 10 days since this was set up, they've raised enough money to cover about 10 days ...

The Fox headline was: "New presidential rankings place Obama in top 10, Reagan and Trump below Biden" Within the article, they did acknowledge Trump c...

What is logic? IMO, it's semantics. "And", "or", if...then....else" and "not" have precise meanings, as clarified in truth tables. We apply logic appl...

But their happy guesses of something that is underlying nature: actual natural law. Several philosophers (Armstrong, Sosa, Tooley are the best known) ...

The Trump cult has weaponized victimhood, and the GOP has embraced and furthered this paradigm because they perceive it to be successful. (Here's a pa...

And yet, the Pro-Trump media continues to feed the "witch hunt" narrative. The article Fox posted yesterday announces the verdict, then proceeds to de...

It's at least probabalistically deterministic, and a pure state quantum system is fully deterministic.

Does Fernee embrace a Many-Worlds Interpretation of QM?

I guess because he wanted to be thorough in presenting potential defenses. Biden IS old, and sounds old. Is a failure to remember specific years when ...

Your allegation is unsupported by evidence. Here's a statement from the Hur report: “We have concluded that there is not a prosecutable case against B...

None of us have the facts necessary to make an objective judgment of the cognitive capacities of either candidate. The fact that more people believe B...

He also brings "not Republican" to the table, which entails (among other things) the expectation he'd block attempts to further restrict women's repro...

I wonder which excuse they'll use to overturn Colorado's decision. My guess: inadequate due process.

Just to be clear, the immunity issue (which is what we were discussing) has no bearing on his candidacy. He could be rotting in prison and still be a ...

The next step will be to file the appeal to the Supreme Court, and this will probably be on the deadline date of Feb 12 (they'll squeeze every possibl...

That's not really true. Sure, everyone is happy to take home more money, but lots are unhappy with the way the tax cuts were divided up. Many are also...

Yes and yes. Do you think that's the full story? Do deficits and debt not matter?

oops. Got it.

Did you mean, "wouldn't"?

What's your point? I simply answered your question. My point was that it's silly to just give credit or blame to a sitting President based on the stat...

What makes you think Trump would be any less supportive of Israel, in its efforts to eliminate Hamas?

You're echoing accusations about Willis, treating them as established fact. As I noted, there have been accusations- and many of them have been debunk...

It's a common thread among members of the Trump cult, that they echo his ad hominem attacks and ignore their saviour's legal and moral issues. If Will...

I'm not a lawyer, but in my IT career, project leaders didn't need technical expertise, they needed management skills. I related this to what the arti...

Much of the negative reporting was based on Roman's accusations, which the JUSTSECURITY article shows to be false. It appears to me that this article,...

She says in her filing that she's known and respected him a long time.

It's in her court filing. If she lied on it, her law license is in jeopardy.

According to Willis, she was not romantically involved with Wade when she hired him.

I was responding to that platitude, not making an accusation. Yes, there is. It seems irrational No. It received no votes from Democrats.

Even Jonathan Turley has said impeachment is unwarranted.

To be a thing is to exist. If you don't understand that, then there's no point discussing further.

Ontic= existing. Nothingness is an absence of existence. Nothingness existing is self-contradictory, like married bachelor. No, it can't. Quantum fiel...

You're blurring the distinction between the objects of the world (the ontic) and concepts we formulate in our minds. Nothingness is a concept (not ont...

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder has an interesting article about this: Is Infinity Real?

You haven't made an empty set, you have conceptualized one. Sure, you can conceptualize nothingness by starting with an empty biscuit tin, then concep...

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Indeed. it's impossible to categorically attribute policy to results. But economists study these things, and this can give us a basis to judge the pol...