I use ChatGpt to write whimsical stories featuring students in my class. It illustrates them as well (the stories, not the kids). The kids love it. By...
I think that's not a bad assumption. Any theory competing with yours also has the problem of creation ex nihilo. I think mind is a better candidate fo...
So we've learned in America that when people are faced with single-digit transitory inflation, all their climate concerns go out the window and they v...
But NOS4A2 right. The American people had all the evidence in front of them and they didn't care about it. Well, a chunk of Americans cared more about...
Chat GPT is awesome for helping with Bayes Theorem. What do you guys think? Here’s a summary of your reasoning and calculations: The Question: Does th...
Usually the design proponent likens the designer to an all-powerful, omnibenevolent god, who would prefer universes with life in it, but that has prob...
That doesn't follow for the simple fact that there is almost no cheating in lotteries despite the existence of lottery designers. The designers want t...
I think they would argue that the personality of the designer is an extrapolation of the designers we know and there is some basis for assuming a univ...
I don't think that last part follows. I think the intelligent design proponent can claim that the designer is a living intelligent being. As such, the...
That is true, but that is not where Trump and MAGA are now. Trump has made it clear he does not like brown and black people. They eat pets. They're ra...
I have the same intuition. I'm partial to thought experiments where a person must save a child or x amount of zygotes. No matter what x is, a rational...
Look who she ran against. If she had been a white male, she would have clobbered Trump. Women and minorities are underrepresented in all aspects of le...
The way Democrats can win an election is not run a woman again for the next ten years. Harris lost the battleground states by a heartbreakingly small ...
Nope. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-immigrants-are-poisoning-blood-country-biden-campaign-liken-rcna130141 Poisoning the b...
How does that square with: ""If someone is willing to kill even their own unborn children, then how can they be counted on that they won't kill other ...
Other people? This implies that the fetus is a person. And what if the mother's life is at stake or we're dealing with a rape victim? You would prohib...
If a neuron dies, you won't lose consciousness. So, if we replace your neurons, one by one, with functionally equivalent mechanical neurons, you would...
It's stupid policy to have 11 million undocumented people living in this country. It's stupid politics on the Democrats part to tolerate/enable that a...
Sam Harris said voters don't like seeing women boxers punched in the face by men. He's right. Biological men in women's sports is a minor issue in the...
I was very surprised so many women would swallow the insults from Trump/Vance and vote for the pro-life sexual predator. If Harris had talked about pr...
Women got pro-choice amendments passed in Kansas and Ohio, of all places. I think they're going to turn out in droves to put one of their own in and s...
There is no such thing as long term anarchy in this world. If something depopulated 99% of the world, maybe, but not in the world we live in. If gover...
The signs look good, and I think Trump will lose, but he should be losing women by 90 points. I don't understand women who would vote for him. Is it b...
But then you're making a trivial point. Would you rather live in Heaven or Hell? Which is a more moral state of affairs? Heaven, on both counts, of co...
OK, let's say you're granted a wish and you wish all the governments away. It's anarchy. You're living on your own in your cabin in the woods and Humu...
Anarchy is ephemeral because humans are social animals and inevitably people will band together and power structures will emerge. In this modern era t...
But how far would you go to saving a zygote? I can envision myself maybe running into a burning building to save a person trapped there, but a petri d...
It has some value in that it has a decent chance of becoming a person. If I saw a zygote dying on the sidewalk, would I take it in the house and keep ...
You're trying to remove intuition from ethics. That's impossible. If your ethically theory leads to extreme counter-intuitives (and yours does), it's ...
Did you see my question pages ago about the fertility clinic and the orphanage? Suppose a fire breaks out at an orphanage with a dozen kids and a fert...
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