RogueAI

So under that logic, when someone’s being tortured, the screaming, the begging, the sheer mental agony—that’s all just “ancillary”? The real story is ...

*Old-school materialism is basically the “billiard ball” view of the universe—solid particles bouncing around in space, totally mindless, following fi...

"but we ought to allow them in our thought experiments since they show what would have to be true if they existed" I started a thread here about that ...

I brought this up too. Old school materialism has intuitive appeal, I guess. Post QM materialism is utterly bizarre and counterintuitive.

You want biological women who have fully transitioned to men and look like men to have to use the women's restroom???

It's like that old saw: who am I going to believe, the eliminative materialists or my own lying mind? It seems like a desperate move to make to rescue...

I think this is true and it has implications for p-zombies. ChatGPT helped me formulate this: Premise 1: Humans form beliefs not solely by reason, but...

Chatgpt will find and link youtube videos now. That's a recent change. A little while ago, it told me it couldn't do that. I just asked Chatgpt and it...

There is a philosopher who claims that Mary gains a new ability, not new knowledge. I bet ChatGPT knows... "The philosopher you're thinking of is Davi...

Except he got it completely wrong on women. I always wonder if these misogynist ancient philosophers ever actually talked to women.

Studying the facts of bike riding vs actually learning to ride a bike. No matter how many facts you acquire about bike riding, you won't know how to a...

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Aren't there two kinds of knowledge? There's factual knowledge of the objective world, which Mary in her black and white world can learn, and then the...

Well, it WAS intuitive. QM is extremely counter-intuitive. Matter used to be little particles that stuff was made of. Now it's excitations in quantum ...

What else does Ukraine have up their sleeve? This puts the incursion into Kursk in a different perspective. Was one of the reasons to make it easier t...

Is there pressure on the ruling party to take back Taiwan? Does the average Chinese citizen care?

There's male, female, and what else? Various disorders where the person has characteristics of both sexes? That's not really a third sex though.

Men being physically stronger than women isn't a cultural thing. Neither is having more testosterone, which we know affects behavior. Has there ever b...

I'm sympathetic to this, but when we label someone as "man", along with a physical description of a male (genitalia, chromosomes, etc.) that label als...

How would something like the LHC or Hubble Telescope be built in anarchist land?

You could say they're men acting like women. But there are problems with that too. If someone thinks they're Napoleon and they dress and behave and in...

This is one of the reasons liberals have been having a tough time in elections and it's just wrong. Trans men aren't women. They're men pretending to ...

Yes. I think most Westerners would agree that women are defined biologically and men identifying as women are still men. It's a fiction that is tolera...

By community, do you mean online? Or the circles I move in? Or the people in my neighborhood? Or as an American?

Those seats on the boards were reserved for women and men who identify as women are not women.

You cut out the salient point of my paragraph: "Remember the uproar when Rachel Dolezal, a white women, identified herself (or tried to) as black? Tha...

The women were right.

Remember the uproar when Rachel Dolezal, a white women, identified herself (or tried to) as black? That didn't sit well with a lot of people. There we...

Yes, that was 4o. It's a very clever thought experiment. I don't like Chatgpt's reasoning. If I'm in a world where complex simulations of people are p...

USER: So then, if all I know about the set up is that these kinds of simulations that can work at sped up times and brain scans are a live possibility...

I'm having trouble with the paradox. Here's how it went down when I talked to ChatGPT about it: USER: Wait a minute. The simluated me is a copy of me ...

At what point is a person white or black?

I don't know, the Russians make a good point: “Of course, at the same time, this is a very crucial moment, which is associated, of course, with the em...

Your boy seems a little unhinged: "HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH ...

No. What do you have?

That's how a lot of philosophy is done. People argue their points and update their beliefs afterwards. If I'm looking to have my mind changed, I'm goi...

"Based on this review, there is an extremely low prevalence of regret in transgender patients after GAS." https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC809...

But it is a decision their parents can make. Can we look at puberty blockers like certain drugs that have potential terrible side effects? Like chemot...

Isn't there a danger there that someone who is serious about gender reassignment down the road could benefit from puberty blockers at adolescence and ...

https://www.amazon.com/Commission-Report-Nuclear-Attacks-Against/dp/1328573915 Short and interesting, but kind of implausible.

Men have been abusing women for so much of human history, I have no problem with women wanting safe spaces from men even when there's no obvious advan...

When you said "If a black man can get rich in America, it's not racist in the way that actually matters." I take that to mean "if a black man can get ...

Of course. Black women don't have it hard in this country cause Oprah!

America itself is a very racist country. We have been since before the Revolutionary War. I said this to another poster (in this thread, I think). In ...

I can't believe I said Tower of Babel! Yes, library.

I think of the LLM's like librarians in the Tower Library of Babel. They don't write the books, but they help you zero in on the book that has the ans...

My Master? Yes, I would refuse. Dark Sith Lord? And I knew you had a severe mental compulsion to be called that or it causes you distress? Sure, why n...

A Trump appointed judge had problems with that and ruled against Trump in the Alien Enemies Act. I don't think SCOTUS is going to give this particular...

If a biological male wants you to use "she" and "her" do you refuse?

I agree with a lot of what you said before this, but I wanted to expand on this. Obama's victory was so traumatizing to a large segment of white socie...