RogueAI

The problem here is that simulated urination/urine is not urine (Kastrup's point that the simulated kidney will never pee on his desk), so if simulate...

Kastrup argues that a computer running a simulation of a working kidney will not pee on his desk, so why would we expect a simulation of a working bra...

We gave assurances to Ukraine when they gave up their nukes. Weakening Russia is in our strategic interest. We have close ties to Europe. We feel for ...

Good points.

I mostly agree with this, but there is a difference between terror bombing, which is probably immoral and doesn't work, and strategic bombing, which i...

Again I ask you if you would have strategically bombed German war industries during WW2 if you could do so with 90% precision. If you had been Churchi...

"Israel's military says 99% of weapons fired by Iran intercepted" https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-04-14-24/index.h...

The attack was pathetic. Israel killed two Iranian generals, a score of their diplomats, and Iran threw crap weaponry at them that got blown out of th...

I agree with that.

We are moral agents. Animals are not. We make laws regulating our behaviors on the assumption we can rise above our primal instincts. Eating meat is p...

I agree it should be a general rule to avoid torture, but there are hypothetical cases where it would seem to be the moral thing to do. Shouldn't the ...

Civilians should be limited to revolvers, shotguns or bolt-action rifles, with lengthy prison time for any violators. That is definitely not an NRA po...

Why should that be the standard? Do you torture the terrorist to get the code to disarm the nuke that's about to go off and kill a million people? I t...

Iran attacked with the ferocity of a cornered rabbit. Looks like the status quo is still in place. The rial is trading at 600,000 to the dollar. The l...

Israel is a nuclear power. They're not going to be at the mercy of anyone in the region.

American citizens. If someone is breaking into your home at night, where are you supposed to retreat to? The back yard? Under the bed? Regardless, I l...

People without a criminal record should be able to buy a gun. I'm on the fence about mental health issues. "As I suppose you know very well, state law...

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Unpack this, please. If it's unjustified killing (murder/manslaughter), than the person is not "law-abiding". If it's a justified killing, then it's s...

There are 400 million+ guns in America. It's easy for criminals to get their hands on one. Law-abiding citizens should have access to guns to counter ...

Suppose the Nordon Bombsight actually worked with 90% accuracy and that 90% of bombs dropped on German munitions plants, aircraft factories, oil/ballb...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ&ab_channel=unmusedtails

No, not that. The problem of personal identity across time.

Do you think idealism solves it? Did you see the conversation with Kastrup and Koch yet?

But you can never be identical to yourself in even the shortest amounts of time. At any point in time, atoms are moving in and out of your body, chang...

The main difference between Trump and Biden is that Biden and the Democrats would not try a Reichstag Fire to stay in power, even if they thought it w...

“That’s not an argument” Am I the only who was reminded of Crocodile Dundee? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vW54lAtldI&ab_channel=Movieclips

If half your memories suddenly disappeared, would you be half you? Wouldn't you still be you even if you lost 90% of your memories? If I had a convers...

As opposed to being a massive dick to people on some obscure philosophy forum? If you're so upset about climate change, why are you wasting your time ...

And yet ideas obviously exist. If they're not physical, what are they? Are you a substance dualist?

Ah, I see. So U.S. consumers aren't supporting China when they buy hundreds of billions of cheap Chinese crap every year? You get so worked up about g...

Not hopeless, but what we're currently doing is obviously not working. People are not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to transition away from...

And yet, https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2024/03/12/eia-confirms-historic-us-oil-production-record/?sh=6fcd85824048 No matter who we have as pres...

https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/chinese-genocide-of-uyghurs-in-xinjiang-continues

If someone believes a simulation of a working brain is conscious, would this be a fairly accurate description of what the person believes: "to say tha...

This thread doesn't seem to be going anywhere, so I'll post the usual stuff I post when someone claims this. If a simulation is conscious, then that m...

Is naturalism really more parsimonious than, say, idealism? Take the Many World Interpretation of QM. Kastrup arguers that countless universes popping...

And common sense. After all, it was a philosopher who recently won a famous bet against a scientist, not the other way around. https://www.scientifica...

The push from the Biden Admin for EV's and emission standards is also night and day compared to what a GOP administration would be doing/will do.

What does your theory have to say about computer consciousness? Are conscious computers possible? Are there any conscious computers right now? How wou...

Science can't do ethics.

I don't know. Maybe a more knowledgeable person could chime in.

Well, if there are a lot of processes that result in consciousness, and a lot of sand dunes being blown around by the wind, then occasionally, through...

There doesn't seem to me to be much difference between dominos falling over and sand grains moving around.

If it's substrate independent, there could be "flashes" of consciousness happening all around us as processes occur in various things: meteor swarms, ...

What I meant by a system of dominoes includes a machine that continually sets them up after they fall according to some program.

Does anyone think a system of dominoes could be conscious?

Yes. I think that will be the case with non-intelligent life. My discussion with Relatavist was predicated on what would happen if we don't find any l...

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/oh-look-whos-leading-in-almost-all-of-the-swing-states/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campai...

As we continue to not discover life and Earth is revealed to inhabit a more and more special place in the universe (and abiogensis remains unexplained...