I must say that it's rare to see someone with objections in an argument be so humble and respectful as you are here. Such things gives me hope for hum...
Please read through first as my initial points may seem more antagonistic than they really are. You see the same dangers I've pointed out, but you nee...
I think you forget about the reality I describe. With advanced automation how much "work" do you think will be done? If an AI can plan with more preci...
The problem with deciphering capitalism is that it doesn't have a constant value. In a poor nation, capitalism can very rapidly improve the quality of...
Welcome to a world without religion in which this crisis leads people to extreme behaviors since society, schools, and work never cared to tackle true...
The biggest risks in terms of war will not be tyrannical leaders' delusional dreams of bigger empires, because the rest of the world is pretty much fe...
No, because a better question would be: "is it ethical to keep people working themselves to death in a system that doesn't care for them? Define if ca...
How do you disregard the fact of Russia's war crimes? The fact of China's interest in Taiwan? The fact of North Korea's recent aggressions? The fact o...
I'm not doing that, that is you framing things in that way, as you always do with your strawmen and why you have dragged this thread down to your leve...
How would you define "at any cost"? However you turn things, there's gonna be suffering. The problem is when the evaluation of the best solution becom...
The key difference is that the number of nukes and people behind them is much higher by the collapse of Russia than anyone else. It's by a large magni...
The thing to remember is that if a state fails and collapses, most of the people with technical knowledge of nuclear weapons would also be subjects fo...
Yes, it would be a mess. But it can also be leveraged. The west could initiate trade agreements and transactions with such states as long as they give...
Even if we see peace or cease-fire at some point, most of the west will probably not do business with Russia. The lesson has been learned: "never trus...
That's usually how it goes. But the conclusion you put forward usually only have cherry picked details from all over the place in history. I'm drawing...
Of course not, but the arguments in here rarely follows that and instead boils down to defensive stances for Putin to give him something he wants to e...
They never do. Voters are rarely intellectually involved and politicians desperately seek voters attention, everything in current democracy is always ...
Could devolve into becoming just like presidential elections and wrestling fights between individuals and media covering who wore the best clothes and...
I'm not that well read-up on British politics so I didn't know that they did that. In all essence I think a lot of western nations of the world needs ...
The only ones supporting Putin are those who argue in defense of Putin. The side-picking is obvious in people's rhetoric. Personally I side with the w...
So the only people they have available as replacements is the last dude who failed. What does this say about Tories? And why doesn't the more rational...
And you position yourself as being the one deciding what level of imagination people are on in their writing and then putting yourself into the balanc...
What's the balance here? You both ask for imagination and condemn it throughout this thread. Is it only when it fits your narrative that imagination i...
Our scale = us, human-sized things observing our surroundings. Physical processes = physics at our human scale, i.e Einsteins theories etc. Not sure w...
A good way to wrap heads around the concept of quantum physics is that things at the smallest Planck measurement to the largest objects in the univers...
Of course, a world disaster could end humanity and it will not, but if no such things happen, it is inevitable because it is a natural progression of ...
Name a reason why the world would not jump onto advanced automation the first chance it gets. It is just as inevitable as how the wheel changed the wo...
I think Capitalism is pretty obvious what it is, it's more interesting to ask the question: is there an economic system past Capitalism that isn't Mar...
Will this show the supporters of Tories, Republicans and other right-wing populist parties how they're not political parties for low to mid-income hou...
Just as with AI images, the AI doesn't create anything new but uses a set of millions of images as its baseline to generate new forms on top. This kin...
I think ego death is the most lacking thing about our modern world. In a world order built around narcissistic tendencies due to the rampage of neolib...
Death is death, like shutting off a computer and then smashing the disk drives. There was a lot on it, but no one would consider that data to "float a...
This topic has been split up into this and the other thread about excessive thinking. So I'll just quote what I wrote there since it covers both topic...
Nature didn't forget this because that's not how evolution works. And we're not even close to an evolutionary transition into a "dumber" human because...
That all would make sense... if it weren't for the fact that people within Russia risk prison for speaking out about how Russia is losing and the fact...
Agreed, we will still get a world drastically changed then how it was. For example, we will have annual heat waves of upwards of 45 degrees celsius in...
There's a difference between questioning a prevailing view and irrational questioning out of group think and biases, especially if the bias is highly ...
Or a failure to function as a rational person. A rational person does not stick to their guns when the opposite has been proven, because they see thro...
Welcome to 2022. No, if everyone acts right now. No one is acting right now and just now reports are made that the arctic is warming four times faster...
It's not the disagreement, it's how you talk about science that informs me. Especially in relation to our consciousness. The scientist is a human, sci...
I think you basically misunderstand everything I say. I didn't say phenomenalism is central to physics, I said it helps conceptualize the theories pre...
We conceptualize through proving behaviors of such things through physics equations and verified tests. If our tests can predict behaviors of matter a...
That is kind of the equivalent of saying you know better because you say you know better. But your argument doesn't show that understanding. Come to t...
And the history of science has gone from religious hogwash to modern science that focuses primarily on detaching itself from our cognitive biases. And...
That's not how science works. Theories don't get thrown out of the window because something else explains things better, they get added, and mixed tog...
For example, how we perceive time makes us bad at conceptualizing a hypothesis that handles time fundamentally different from our experience. If we do...
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