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I might be a few hours late. I assume nobody minds, since this is not a contest. I'll definitely be done by midnight my time (UTC -7)

Ah, my real concern was that the essays were going to be hidden from the main forum. I see that is not the case.

I will submit something. I suggest we post them to the main forum, maybe with a prefix like . They are topical, after all!

I think that goes too far. Minds are adept at formulating concepts, and matching instances to these concepts. For something to be notated a member ins...

I think there is a subtle conflation here between an attribute and it's notation. That we notate something as existing depends on a mind to do the not...

So, in one short week, the Moron has: * Crashed the stock market * Crashed the bond market * Crashed the dollar * Alienated all of our allies (except ...

Believe me I am aware of this. You might be under the misapprehension that the Republicans in this country are actual public servants working for the ...

I can't wait to hear the first Trumpy laud the market rebound as a great victory for Trump.

I'm not so sure they care about that either. The debt has worked wonderfully for the republicans, by playing the Two Santas game. Historically they us...

That is completely guaranteed. A lot of these people are truly living precariously. Trump simultaneously, by imperial decree: * Threw a wrecking ball ...

It is beyond obvious that Trump found the ultimate grift and power trip. He is the greatest market manipulator of all time. There is a 0% chance that ...

THE MORON'S GOTTA GO!

I don't think this is quite right. Our faith in institutions and privileged people is in the belief that their powers are legitimate. "Doing the wrong...

The act of faith here is not believing in specific rules, but belief in the relevant institution's (IFAB here) authority to will rules in and out of b...

You put a lot of emphasis on change. I'm wondering if you are under emphasizing a more fundamental epistemic problem. As I see it, the core problem of...

Faith is the attitude of consent toward social/institutional realities. Without evidence, these are treated as if they were objective realities, not a...

I agree with pretty much every thing you say. The one part we may differ is that I question the validity of the Gettier problem. In the sense that it ...

Hmmm, remind me why Gettier is even a problem. The businessman believed himself to be justified that the time was correct. However, in retrospect, aft...

This hoary false paradox certainly says nothing about the actual nature of space or anything. In this exercise you are imagining the state of the tort...

I'm curious, what books?

It seems clear it is held in the cup. The shape of the cup is such that it can hold coffee. No need for a separate entity, "space". Consider this: You...

Some words have substantive [referents outside the web of language, some do not. Some do not but pretend they do. Time may be one is them. A kind of c...

My suggestion it that it is a fictiticious placeholder, an abstraction of derived from physical process. But if there is such a thing, it is the same ...

While the arguments are fallacious, I might agree with the basic premise: maybe time is a placeholder, an abstraction, there is no actual entity corre...

The thought has crossed my mind. If so, that is a particularly odious kind of evil: at the one hand, deny climate change as strenuously as possible, d...

@"Pierre-Normand" You have posted many very impressive conversations. In your opinion do you think AI has achieved "AGI", whatever that is supposed to...

Speaking of jazz and metal, here is Napalm Death as performed by NY arty jazz musicians. It blew my young mind when I heard it first. https://www.yout...

But this I agree with. Your original claim was that we don't experience matter at all. Your argument is with the direct realists, not with me. But, th...

It might be the case, but this is not what you posted in your op. Your original claim was that we experience sensations, not matter. We can experience...

Matter is both what we experience, and the explanation of our experiences. When we see a tree, we experience visual sensations. These visual sensation...

Clearly not, the "I think" of common speech self-attributes or weakens a claim, it doesn't reference consciousness in any way. What I'm pointing out i...

I mean include in a textual proposition describing my mental state . If I think p, in response to "what is going on in your head", I must include "I t...

That's fine. I don't want to overfocus on natural language, and I think the sentence of mine you quoted was mistaken. For one, self-consciously thinki...

I have in mind speaking in a language you don't understand. Speaking on a subject you don't understand. Lying. Also, you might include cases such as L...

Interesting. I would say this is usually, but not necessarily the case, that uttering "I think p" entails thinking about thinking p. In the same way, ...

My response to the op, without reading though the whole thread: Rodl is correct (leaving aside whether Kant supports him). I would answer Pat with som...

I'm surprised such an argument would look convincing to modern eyes. For one, there are just too many steps for them all to have any hope of withstand...

I've experienced joy and pain.

Oh cool, I didn't notice accepted answers were a thing now.

I think the link you found is a good clue. Sartre no doubt inherited the French anti-Mendelian sentiment of the time. One strain of that argument may ...

But 2+2=4 is not arbitrary in the way that "bishops move diagonally" is. Or rather, 2+2=4 follows the rules of adding in the same way that a diagonal ...

So I'm curious then, what was the idea of the Dalek-like automaton? A dreamy delusion of Greta's? I think people just got fixated on the fanatic thing...

I experienced this when I was in the early stages of writing a video game. Even though it was quite consuming, as a whole I thought that level of enga...

You will have to explain!

Now that the fever dream of fiction has broken, I'm getting into the idea. I think I have a topic picked out already.

More or less, about three weeks of intermittent, undisciplined writing and revising. Not including the time mulling over the story, which I did on and...

What dismays me is the association between "perfect" writing - whatever that means to the reader - and AI. I'm positive you are not the only one makin...

Exactly the same thing happened to me. This time I'm really trying to get myself to write outside of TPF. I have another story worked out, but its rea...

This is not how these "authors" work. They don't say, "make me a war movie". They plot out the movie themselves, and break it down into scenes (likely...

Even the two pennies was more of a collaboration. The AI wanted me to get rid of "a nickel and two pennies" entirely, because it overwhelmed the reade...