RogueAI

I think that's obvious. I think anyone in charge of England in the situation I outlined is going to use gas, no matter what they vote for here. They'r...

Goebbels asked the Germans if they wanted total war. They enthusiastically said yes. The Allies gave it to them, good and hard. Everything is fair gam...

Hamburg was a strategically important city to Germany. Britain's bombing campaign forced Germany to devote resources to flak guns, divert fighters awa...

Dresden wasn't, but Hamburg in 43 was.

How does socialism create jobs? Are you talking about government jobs?

I like the idea I'm molding future versions of Ai's. Maybe idealism will get a boost.

Ok. I appreciate the answers. I'm not trying to put words in your mouth.

Let's go with this then. What does "full of holes" mean? Was there also only a 70% chance that Obama was the rightful winner in either of his election...

You're stating that there have been a lot of US elections where there's a 30% chance massive fraud was involved in the outcome?

No, you didn't say it, but you're certainly insinuating something. Was Biden the rightful winner or not?

Are you saying Biden won the election because of voter fraud? That Trump was the rightful winner?

What country is close to being able to implement UBI? In America, we're piling on debt just trying to provide social security and medicare to old peop...

Does no one here have a house, decent job, and kids who are doing well?

In the Matrix, the humans' minds and consciousness are still coming from their brains. Simulation theory goes way beyond that.

I'm not making any claim other than we know mind and consciousness exist. It's up to the people asserting mindless stuff (i.e., matter) exists and con...

Why is the burden of proof on me? We know mind and consciousness exist. The existence of mind-independent stuff is simply asserted. I would like to se...

Minds and consciousness can't come from matter, therefore simulation theory is false.

It sounds like you're saying we make subconscious choices about evidence being good or not.

Agreed.

I'm wondering about cultists. Does the cultist ever make a conscious decision to join a cult, or does it just gradually take over your life? I doubt a...

Can you choose to become a cult member, or does it just sort of happen to you? It seems a lot of this is subconscious and the end result of the subcon...

In the coin flipping case, it seems like you just reach a point where you're sure it's not random. It's a gradual process. In the case where your neig...

Sure, there can be a compulsion to update beliefs based on new evidence, but is the updating process itself involuntary? Suppose I'm flipping a coin a...

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One way or another, when new evidence comes in a belief is formed about that evidence: either the evidence is good or bad or I have to reserve judgeme...

How do we judge evidence if it's not happening consciously? You think it's going on "under the hood"?

Take the Gettier case for example. In the first case, he sees the clock and assumes it's telling the right time. He doesn't see anything obviously wro...

If we can't voluntarily choose whether a piece of evidence is good or not, how can we be sure we're updating our hypotheses correctly? How could scien...

My neighbor can only change my belief if I let him. For example, I could conclude that I was being scammed somehow, someone was using an Ai to imitate...

You can't change a belief when new evidence is presented? For example, I'm driving to work, thinking my house is fine. My neighbor calls me and tells ...

You believe the election was actually stolen? Like Sidney Powell and Mike Lindell? Or in a Tucker Carlson way?

"Trump leads Biden among young people Young voters are part of Democrats’ natural base of support, but Biden is actually 11 percentage points behind T...

Right, how could I forget? MAGA also believes whites are being persecuted worse than any other people in history.

They want the border closed, more conservative SCOTUS judges appointed, more drilling, more refineries, a kickass foreign policy, less EV's, less envi...

Well, I get why the conservatives justices would want Trump to win, but you're suggesting there's a conspiracy going on among them to delay his trial....

Agreed.

The soonest Trump could pardon himself is January. SCOTUS will not take that long.

Why? Trump as President doesn't have any influence over SCOTUS's rulings.

Like affirmative action? Would I, a white male with a bunch of privileges, agree to a 5% reduction in the chance of getting into a good school/good jo...

There's more at stake than just Trump. John Yang: Marcia, what else do the justices seem to be concerned about? Marcia Coyle: Well, there was some con...

Why would they do that? They have lifetime appointments. Trump has no leverage over them. They owe him nothing.

He tried his best to argue a completely bonkers position.

That was a well thought out reply, but I disagree with your conclusion. If materialism/physicalism entails that consciousness might come about through...

This would also be true if idealism is the case and there is only one cosmic mind and we are all aspects of it.

Why?

Iran is an economic basket case that just got humiliated by Israel assassinating it's generals and diplomats and blasting its impotent weaponry out of...

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I think it's significant they're taking insect consciousness seriously. I don't remember hearing anything about that when I was getting my degree thir...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/893885 "Does anyone think a system of dominoes could be conscious? What I meant by a system of domin...

What do you think of this? https://xkcd.com/505/ Is it possible to simulate consciousness by moving rocks around (or, as one of the members here claim...