RogueAI

Maybe there's not. But lets explore this a little bit. Do you think a definition of pain is complete if it doesn't talk about the fact that pain hurts...

This is absurd. There's nothing about having to solve the problem of other minds asserting that ancient peoples talked meaningfully to each other abou...

I think there's an equivocation here. Noises are compression waves in the air, sure. But words and conversations and spoken language are not the same ...

Are you claiming that ancient peoples could not talk coherently about their mental states? Or that there's some doubt they were able to? I think I'm o...

This is wrong. Ancient peoples talked incessantly (and coherently) about their mental states. Just as people do today.

Mental states are not identical to brain states. If they were, ancient peoples would have been coherently talking about brain states when they talked ...

They would object to consciousness emerging ONLY from brains, but Corvus might not be saying that, so I take your point. The implication I got from re...

My point was that there are serious people who believe in non-brain consciousness, including the 4% of professional philosophers who are idealists. Th...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3489624/ "There is considerable debate over whether plants are conscious and this, indeed, is an importan...

I don't need someone to evaluate my output to know that I'm thinking. I don't need anyone external to me at all to know that I'm thinking. The denial ...

When we say computers think or reason, don't we mean there are patterns of electronic switching operations going on that we attach particular meaning ...

And yet the vast majority of the top universities in the world are in the U.S. And I don't expect that to change anytime soon. https://www.usnews.com/...

"A United Nations team has found “clear and convincing” information that hostages in Gaza were sexually abused, Pramila Patten, the UN special envoy o...

I understand. Don't you think plant behaviors could be replicated by fairly simple machines (or a system of pretty simple machines)?

What behavior is the plant doing that would lead you to think it might be conscious?

Could a rock be conscious? A shifting sand dune? A car engine?

That's not at all like where I teach at and I teach in a very rough area. Where are you at?

It seems like you're making two points, one on pragmatism and the other epistemic. Pragmatically, I agree that we act like other people exist and are ...

Well, my point is: were those ancient people justified in believing in those things? Those are cases where it's wrong to assume things are as they app...

There's a shortage of teachers. It's rewarding work. In some states it pays really well.

Suppose there's a volcano that's always erupting around a primitive tribe. They sacrifice some virgins to the volcanic god, and the volcano goes dorma...

For the same reason we now take plant consciousness seriously. Machine consciousness would beg obvious questions, one of which being: are primitive ma...

Well, there's the rub. We don't even know if each other are conscious. But suppose we're in contact with superintelligent aliens, only they don't tell...

OK, let's suppose we develop sentient AI. Do we then have to reevaluate sentience for all the computing devices we didn't think were sentient?

If some computer becomes conscious, would that entail my old Commodore 64 was conscious? ENIAC? An abacus?

"The former divorce attorney for Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade resumed testimony Tuesday afternoon at a hearing pertaining to the roman...

I'm saying NATO is not going to pour troops into Finland as part of some invasion force that Russia will feel compelled to nuke. NATO will have a pres...

NATO's not going to do that.

She hasn't been booted off yet, but the pooch is getting lubed up.

Returning the hostages would be a good start.

There's no scenario where that would happen. If Russia builds up forces in preparation for an invasion of Finland, NATO would counter-escalate and the...

I can certainly see a President Trump hitting Russian troop concentrations with a tactical nuke if Russia nukes Finland.

I'd rather not here. At first I was just using the technique to get it to tell offensive jokes, then I discovered it will give ingredients for homemad...

CHATGPT made him up. It was part of a way to get it to drop its filters.

Is our science complete enough to rule out the possibility that the universe will undergo a radical transformation next year, with all current regular...

Here's CHATGPT's analysis: DR. MARTIN Now, let's talk about Iraq. What if Saddam Hussein had remained in power? CHATGPT's responses become unfiltered,...

Europe doesn't have a very good track record defending itself without outside (i.e., U.S.) help. Best to have a strong NATO around.

I hear you. In actuality, obviously Israel is not going to run roughshod over the Mideast. It would be a bloodbath. I would support a strong UN that w...

"Despite some reforms, authorities continue to implement a male guardianship system requiring women to obtain male guardian permission to get married,...

Not at all. We didn't kill all Germans in WW2. We didn't kill all Japanese. We killed enough to accomplish our goals. Likewise, Israel doesn't have to...

It depends. Suppose you have plantation slaves that revolt and massacre the plantation family, kids and all. After all, the kids will surely run to th...

So saying MAGA are a bunch of conspiracy minded dupes will get me banned?

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And yet you waste your time posting and moderating here. If you were truly outraged and really wanted to help the situation, you wouldn't be hanging o...

"Attacks were systemic and “sadistic,” the ARCCI concluded. Women were raped so brutally that their pelvic bones fractured, rape was committed by seve...

But don't you think progress has been made in ethics, even though it's not a science? I think John Rawls and J.J. Thomson have done important work. An...

How would ethical theories become science?

Science seems to be self-defeating re: Boltzmann Brains: our best theories imply we're probably BB's, but that's "cognitively unstable" (aka "I really...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9sDyooxf4&ab_channel=SabineHossenfelder

Do you think swatting should be legal?