"Ends justifying the means" is only universally possible if we can universalize the ends as being good. On a cosmic scale, we could think that destroy...
Consciousness might just be the emergent effect out of a biological necessity for adaption within nature. Just like some animals have different tactic...
This is essentially "Mary in the black and white room" set within the context of AI. Human data does not equal human experience. We aren't made of fra...
You are giving human consciousness-attributes to something that lacks the experience of being a human. An AGI without the experience of a human, will ...
I think it is without positive or negative value, it only is. We live our lives today in a vastly different way than people did a thousand years ago. ...
Some of this process has already been proven in labs where organic material were "zapped" with electricity to kickstart a process that would lead to m...
Explanation of what? How we came to be? How consciousness came to be? How the universe came to be is still unknown, my latest thoughts revolve around ...
I think it matters in a historical context of how the progression of ideas started out in western philosophy. Maybe because he became a martyr, it pop...
I always start out in a respectful matter, but if the person I'm debating acts with disrespect or a rhetoric that's destructive and arrogant I usually...
Not that the multiverse cannot exist. If the hypothesis is true, it is emergent out of the universal laws that exist, i.e all possible worlds within t...
Something outside of our laws of physics. Multiverse is a concept derived out of quantum physics, which is part of our universe's laws of physics. The...
If a world war broke out and we were involved, the amount of engineering we're capable of within the industries we have already established, would put...
Do people care more about some things and less about others but equally have some care for both? The reason the Ukraine has gathered more attention am...
Aiming with actual actions taken to put it into reality. It's not rhetoric if we're actually mobilizing towards it. As a person with actual insight in...
Oh, please educate me about what has been decided and not been decided by our parliament and military. The argument was that European nations hasn't t...
Not ot mention that we're building up civil duties, improving shelters, and we're now aiming for 2% of GDP going into defensive expenses. We're also a...
I think that people misinterpret the multiverse hypothesis too much. The multiverse is an emergent property of the laws of the universe. Therefore, ev...
A continuous thing that happens in The Matrix is how people feel that something is wrong with the world. Existence within the matrix gives the same se...
We can mimic reasoning, but not perception. This is one of the points I've been having about creative AI, in general, of how we cannot really replace ...
I'm not read up on how this contest works, I see people posting stories though, you mean those? Yeah, I've been looking into how well it performs with...
As someone who actually works with stories and writing, I can tell you, it's not easy. Story and storytelling is extremely hard since it taps into a p...
It's not opened to the internet yet, I'm also worried what will happen when they open up the input data for its machine learning system to the vast ce...
So, I asked ChatGPT to write a story about why you don't think robots can be more than input and outputs. While I get your argument on how it structur...
I think that if a scientific and maybe also colonizing trip through the galaxy would be possible, then there would be a lot of protocols for how to in...
We initiate scientific protocols, study from space over the course of a few years, and then initiate a landing expedition. If the planet has life, but...
...and which can explain the hypothesis of the big bang and the universe as we know it being a "bubble" in a pure energy field. Like, if infinite and ...
There's also irony in the methodology of writing fiction. It can be close to the definition of "poetic irony/justice", but it's mainly used as a form ...
There are physics and chemical definitions of what "solid" means and that's how it's used, but if we're thinking purely critically of the meaning of t...
I've literally described in what way the comparison is being made and you ignore it. Comparing Russian citizens following a state doctrine to another ...
What? "Race" is about genetic lineage, it has nothing to do with what nation you are in or which citizenship you have. Look it up in a dictionary if y...
"Russians" aren't a race. You can be a citizen of a nation and that does not mean you are a race of that nation, that just means being part of a natio...
A punch in the face is however a "neutral act". But a person can also be annoyed by someone's race, ability to understand language, or presumption of ...
Not trying to argue against it, but I'm curious about where this leads even if it's a slight derail in here... Can a person act as a racist, even with...
Yeah, maybe Zelensky just misspoke? According to the logic, a non-native English speaker is not reliable enough in using the language for a conclusive...
Ok, what was his argument? To be an ad hominem there has to be an argument that I didn't adress? That his interpretation is more valid based on "just ...
How in the world is what I wrote an ad hominem? I described the reasons why it's impossible to discuss with someone who requires their own interpretat...
It's not quite clear at all. It could be actions to put much harsher pressure on Russia, it could mean actions to rally military defense lines at the ...
If a no-fly zone were initiated, or a "soft" one, that would basically mean Nato shoots down the missiles shot into Ukraine. If that happened without ...
Direct Nato involvement is not a single event. It can also mean other structures of pressure on Russia than some final nuclear war. It's this type of ...
And you, of course, interpret that as "initiate Article 5 and bomb Russia to hell". In no way is what he said directly pushing for a direct world war ...
If you were in his situation, asking for a no-fly zone and more help to defend his people and push back the Russians, what would you have done? Especi...
What I wrote was a speculation on the outcome if it was Russian. Zelensky wants a no-fly zone over Ukraine, he knows a full-blown Article 5 interventi...
How does a Russian misfire into Poland lead to nuclear war? It's engaging Article 4, not 5 and would most likely lead to higher political pressure on ...
I'm not spinning anything. I'm describing what the scenario would be if it was Russian. But you can't even accept speculation based on a possible conc...
The fact is that the US and Poland have both said conflicting things within their own nations so there's nothing conclusive at all about this. However...
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