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What makes you so sure machines don’t feel anything to be machines? The capacity you just gave is not detectable yet. So what makes you so sure what h...

Seeing the resume is experimental evidence. And how do you think they got said features? If not by actually knowing what they're talking about (with m...

You mean looking at their resumes? No, it’s a definition. An expert is someone with a PhD or doctorate. We can confirm whether or not someone has this...

Sure. But doesn’t say “conscious observer” does it? I’m sure if you asked those same physicists of consciousness was required to collapse wave functio...

Someone with a Phd or doctorate at least. And it’s not the domain of science to define what “expert” means. So there is no scientific or pseudoscienti...

what exactly counts as an observation? If I rig a bomb to explode if and only if the electron goes through the right slit, will the bomb explode? Will...

Yup. The video hasn’t shown that “observer” has anything do with minds. Or what exactly is and isn’t an observer.

I watched that forever ago already. I just skimmed through it again. Ok quantum wave functions collapse when observed. Where is the idealism?

How does either option there amount to a form of idealism?

eliminativism would be insisting that consciousness doesn’t exist. Reducing it to the physical is reductionism. It still exists, it’s just not magical...

Now that he can’t stop it harmlessly*. If, for instance, the people in the world rely on the products and need a continuous supply of them. Thing is, ...

They're not. The highest value is prevention of suffering. If said labor is needed (aka is preventing suffering) then it's fine. Because in that case ...

If the fruits of these people's labor are needed somewhere then it's fine depending on how needed this labor is. Otherwise if you're doing it for no r...

Sure whatever. I don’t particularly care about this point.

“Jungian”, “Protestant”, etc

Not all isms end with “ism” To reject all isms is another ism. “Rejectism” let’s call it.

Do not mention the cursed one. The Starter of Interminable Threads. The insatiable devourer of time. But I would more so say that when Dennett says “c...

Cool. But is having children now risk free? No. If not what justifies the risk? The antinatalist would tell you: Nothing. What would you say? Not as s...

If this is valid it applies to your “proof” too. A proof that disproves itself false is nonsensical. What makes you think you haven’t made a mistake? ...

I see what you mean now. There are multiple ways to resolve this though. 1- First off, the AN doesn't claim that all is not well necessarily. But that...

Even that one. In other words, you're speaking nonsense. Your thoughts are self contradictory. Should be a pointer that “if they were suffering they c...

“if they were suffering they couldn’t have thought of this position therefore this position is not right” What? How does that follow? And how does it ...

Cool. So since you have everything figured out from indubitable first premises with pristine logic maybe close discussion down and don’t post again :w...

I would want to be a bit more specific here. Not sure what you mean by “antinatalism is pointless”. If you mean by it that “Antinatalism is not good” ...

I would agree even back when I was one.

"Is morally irrelevant if nobody actually benefits"? What does that mean?

If they don’t have any friends I can see that but all my University teachers discussed their work all the time. Especially the daring and crazy ideas....

You keep blabbering about this but have provided no proof of your own expertise. And you said that no experts have ever looked at your argument. I'd a...

Idk what any of that means or what it’s in response to. “Guiding principle”? When did anyone mention that?

I don’t remember ever hiring you or signing up for any of your classes. But since I apparently did, you’re fired/I drop out. On account of you being a...

look up the definition of the word “deserve”. I’m not your English teacher.

False. If they deserve to be tortured then it is not wrong to torture them. By definition. Definition of deserve: "do something or have or show qualit...

I understood and replied to it. You didn’t understand my reply. You’re shifting goal posts in your answer. You’re changing what is “morally permissibl...

Views aren't true. It's not that simple. Statements are true in light of certain premises. In light of different premises they can be false. Again, te...

Truth and falsity are determined by checking if the conclusion follows from the premises. People don’t always agree on the premises. “True” is not an ...

Both of which you espoused here. And the latter leads to everything being morally permissible. That’s all I’m saying. If that’s not a reductio ad absu...

On other threads you talk about whether or not they’re true. And on this one I try to show how many absurd scenarios your view leads to. Yes you can. ...

Depending on the difficulty of said game, I will think it’s over or under the threshold. I happen to think it’s often under the threshold. While you t...

Why? On the basis that both are “for a lifetime”? I would say there are some things that are ok to force onto people for a lifetime because of the suf...

I... don’t understand. Where there did you argue that having children meets the threshold of “too much dignity violation”?

Where do you get this? That’s the main point. You don’t have a real argument unless you can argue for this premise. It’s crucial.

ok. No mention of you anywhere (except here, hope you don’t mind, oh and there)

Don’t you also say that having a child already meets the threshold in every case? No because I would add “a bunch of good things not occurring is bad”...

I disagreed with a claim in the OP. As usual, people have to point out to you when they are against your view and where because you can’t seem to unde...

Nobody’s disagreed about their compatibility, theoretically. Everyone is disagreed whether either of them being true. Especially with the way you deri...

Right so here we go again. You give weight to the thoughts of big name philosophers on account on them being good reasoners. For the same reason you g...

But you argue for a binary position. Having kids is wrong. Period. And you haven’t shown that the threshold is met in the case of birth. If that’s you...

This comes from conflating the state with the personal opinion of someone. If we’re comparing states, the absence of a good state is bad and the absen...

Yea I never bought this one either. I don't see what sense it makes insisting that people are suffering when they keep assuring you they're not. If th...

Yup. It depends on how much the harm that is being inflicted is and how much good is done by inflicting it. I doubt anyone here tends the absolutist p...