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Imagine a world where everything is privatized and nothing is taxed. You have your own house and the land it was built on, and you paid for it. You wi...
April 21, 2023 at 11:03
So you are basically just engaging in a debate through a guilt by association fallacy, rather than having a discussion? How am I protecting that when,...
April 21, 2023 at 10:15
No, but Dunbar's number also predicts that you cannot scale society based on such principles larger than a very low number. Even if Dunbar's number ha...
April 20, 2023 at 17:55
Scandinavian social democracies aren't falling, they're far more stable than most other nations with less socialist systems. Not sure what you are ref...
April 20, 2023 at 15:03
Yes, agreed about the positives, but if you say that those things aren't part of individualism you simply ignore those parts of it. "Individualism" is...
April 20, 2023 at 13:23
What I said about individualism is not that there's any individualist states, but individualist traits. Politics didn't form individualism during the ...
April 20, 2023 at 12:30
But some functions better than others, and the ones that don't function well are the ones falling into the extremes. And with careful programming, ove...
April 20, 2023 at 09:58
What a perfect guest speaker at a time when AI is experiencing exponential growth! Since he has written extensively about language and theories of the...
April 19, 2023 at 17:07
And it sounds wonderful in theory until the community goes into deciding what contributions are acceptable and what are not. There's not much headroom...
April 19, 2023 at 15:04
Communism demands no individual thinking. Individualism demands no collective thinking. Psychology shows that there's no pure individual or pure colle...
April 19, 2023 at 13:10
I think it has to do with their delusion of hegemony. If you believe that your nation is the biggest and best in the world, has the best state system,...
April 19, 2023 at 10:08
That's expected in a nation where the right amount of money can free you of anything. The US has never been a nation of justice, it has always been a ...
April 19, 2023 at 08:50
Here's an idea for improving fact generation. ----- Normal function. Improved fact-checking in "high accuracy mode" hidden prompt to itself, listing a...
April 18, 2023 at 10:20
This has already happened in the last 10 years since social media was established and took over the world as a dominant place of social interaction. I...
April 18, 2023 at 09:48
I asked ChatGPT to write a story about all of this, just for fun :sweat:
April 17, 2023 at 22:16
We can only hope that if we ever get answers to all the signals we send out into the cosmos, it won't be... "Silence, before they hear you!"
April 17, 2023 at 22:01
Why would there have to be any awareness on the simulator's part for our existence? The simulation, if true, and seen as we can study so far into the ...
April 17, 2023 at 21:26
It's with topics like this that the EU is actually one of the best political actors globally. Almost all societal problems that arise out of new techn...
April 14, 2023 at 11:13
It already happened in and around 2016 before we started putting pressures on data-collecting through social networks, but it's still not rigid enough...
April 13, 2023 at 12:14
Fair question. Make-up is however part of the whole experience, they see the same "made-up" face in the mirror every day and there's the physical act ...
April 12, 2023 at 16:33
Because it's directly related to what they talk about in the video about the TikTok filters. The question is rather, is that a plausible extrapolated ...
April 12, 2023 at 11:52
Finally, a discussion that focuses on the actual dangers of the current AI models evolving. There's been too much nonsense about super-intelligences a...
April 12, 2023 at 11:28
It's equally rational to Occam's Razor that with the complexity of how reality functions, the probability of complex life is obvious on a large enough...
April 05, 2023 at 15:03
You forgot to buy a southern hemisphere keyboard.
April 05, 2023 at 14:23
I would opt for a slightly greener green, a bit more saturation, less teal :sweat:
April 05, 2023 at 14:15
The one-eyed man perceives the oncoming knife with no depth-perception until a sensation of loss for he can no longer perceive the thing as a knife, o...
March 27, 2023 at 14:29
Taking AI to the extreme, even a "dumb" algorithmic AI could potentially replace the majority of work that people do. Universal income might be the on...
March 24, 2023 at 16:26
I agree, but I am more optimistic that art will survive because people who were mesmerized by "content" in the past never cared for art in the first p...
March 24, 2023 at 14:54
It's still a misunderstanding of how we appreciate art and artists. It's only talking about imitations and focuses only on craft, not intention, commu...
March 24, 2023 at 14:15
How does an AI create a movie like Roma? Or Tarkovskijs Stalker? Or more recent, how does it create something like Everything Everywhere all at Once? ...
March 24, 2023 at 14:08
In the former case, yes, it will replace much of copywriting and content-writing. In the latter case with writing movies, it may function for just doi...
March 24, 2023 at 13:42
I don't think that will happen, I think we will find ourselves augmenting our reasoning with the help of these tools. A way of streamlining the knowle...
March 23, 2023 at 18:06
Though it is mimicking exactly how most human reason in realtime discussions. It is also largely difficult to draw the line between a synthesis of inf...
March 23, 2023 at 17:57
Making my own development of the JWST raw Nircam data is a blast. https://i.postimg.cc/9MzMfDgg/NGC-2070-webb.jpg
March 16, 2023 at 12:41
I see those as far more dangerous than the idea of AI being destructive. We might even benefit from AI removing many of the existential threats we hav...
March 03, 2023 at 11:18
There's your answer right there? The right-wing, globally, in western nations, has moved further away from low-tax, capitalist politics and gone fully...
March 02, 2023 at 13:01
Yes, this is essentially what I meant (in less detail), by the "scientific mind" and the "religious mind". My definitions were made based on previous ...
February 21, 2023 at 18:19
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I think the main problem is that there was an overweight of low-quality posts and just single-word / single-sentence contributions without the necessa...
February 21, 2023 at 17:25
I'd seriously recommend moderators look into this idea. It wouldn't even need to be something they create an account for, there could be a guest accou...
February 21, 2023 at 15:06
I think of philosophers as outliers in society. Most of humanity revolves around forming patterns of behavior and those patterns can be formed into so...
February 21, 2023 at 14:47
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I thought his posts had some low-quality problems, but he generally had good intuitions and observations that he shared with deep honesty and curiosit...
February 21, 2023 at 14:25
Without knowing any other larger context, this sounds like how I described the "scientific mind" compared to the "religious mind". Do you mean that th...
February 21, 2023 at 13:02
Of course, but I didn't talk about religious people as much as "religious minds" and the difference of that towards a scientific mind. It acts as a ki...
February 21, 2023 at 12:52
The only fear of religion I have is when religious people force their own preferences and opinions upon the world as if they were facts and truth. Rel...
February 20, 2023 at 15:50
Technology is neutral, we can only judge how people use technology. And doing good with technology has been the most positive change for humanity ever...
February 19, 2023 at 16:09
Why does it have to be this black and white? Yes, as true artists, AI can never replace us. It can replace content creation, but not true art (argumen...
February 19, 2023 at 15:35
None of that is providing any other scientific theory that has its roots in all data and surrounding theories presented in science on the topic. The s...
February 19, 2023 at 14:45
That is a better clarification of it. But still just a description of how things are now, not how it formed. If the inanimate evolved into something w...
February 17, 2023 at 14:01
Not specifically in comparison to United Kingdom but... - Problematic gun laws - Schools are "pay to win" - No actual quality health care that's free ...
February 17, 2023 at 13:25
According to the theories of how life started. That's the closest we are to an answer, anything else is extreme wild speculations combined with religi...
February 16, 2023 at 14:51