RogueAI

I don't think Wayfarer thinks numbers exist in his brain. Maybe in an immaterial platonic realm?

There were strategic reasons for the air campaign, even after it was obvious it wasn't slowing German production down all that much and wasn't breakin...

I'm enjoying the thread.

This is beneath you. You know Trump is talking about immigrants when he uses words like "vermin" and "poisoning the blood of the country". And you als...

You have a point. Let's stipulate p-zombies have beliefs. Would a p-zombie believe it's in pain (the way a human understands pain, which is accompanie...

We don't behave this way, so p-zombies would not behave this way. But without a mind, how could they behave in any other way? I think there may be a c...

I think we need to define some terms here. Do you agree that any definition of pain has to include the "feels bad" aspect of it? If we're talking abou...

But belief is a conscious mental activity. P-belief/p-consider is incoherent. It's missing a necessary condition for anything that remotely resembles ...

But this isn't true for you. Pain/hurting is more than just a detection of signals of injury. Pain/hurting hurts. It feels bad.

I don't agree with this. "so he says he feels pain, not knowing that it isn't real pain". That's an epistemic issue, not a truth issue. For any x, if ...

I agree with that.

Well, one of us sounds like a fanatic. I'll leave it at that.

Who should have won WW2, the Axis or Allies?

Perhaps they have desires and urges we're not aware of.

When humans say "pain hurts" it's true. When a p-zombie says it, it's not. And, I'm not so sure a p-zombie would say "pain hurts". Why would they lie?...

How many German and Japanese kids died because their parents made bad decisions in the 1920's and 30's? A lot. Far more than Israel will end up killin...

Land is undoubtedly part of the issue with Hamas and Palestinians. From what I've read, though, I believe the motivation of groups like Hamas to slaug...

Good question. Why did the 9/11 hijackers commit suicide to kill American civilians? "Abu Mohammed picked up his rifle, said farewell to his wife and ...

Western countries are superior to Middle East countries. You wouldn't choose to live in Iran, or Iraq, or Egypt over Israel for obvious reasons. Few p...

I don't think so. All societies are not created equal. The United States was superior to the Confederacy. Churchill's Britain was superior to Hitler's...

As a famous American once observed, elections have consequences. Choosing to be ruled by Hamas has led to some disastrous consequences for the Palesti...

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Does pain hurt? Does it feel bad?

Another difference between P-zombie world and normal world is, Would P-Zombie language have any referents to mental states? Words like "ecstatic" or "...

I used to come across "I'm a p-zombie" in the international skeptics forum many years ago.

Are you conscious?

Isn't it a little far-fetched to imagine a p-zombie getting in a drunken argument and murdering someone? Doesn't something like that require a lot of ...

Yes.

How could a zombie commit a crime of passion??? By definition they have no passions.

Would a p-zombie ever murder someone after having a bunch of drinks at a bar and getting in an argument, and then a fight? Or is that uniquely a human...

True, but if feelings are sufficient for action (and I think it's obvious feelings are sufficient motivators to do certain things), and x has feelings...

Then we are self-replicating machines, since they are the same as us, except dead inside. But as Bert points out: I think this goes to the heart of it...

It's true, a world of completely evolved p-zombies could pop into existence like a Boltzmann Brain. Would the p-zombies then decide to continue their ...

I think you're misreading Frum's quote. He's not saying border security is a fascist thing. He's saying that given a choice between fascists who happe...

I don't think it's tautological. Frum is saying that voters value border security so strongly that they'll pick fascists to do it over liberals who wo...

"David Frum @davidfrum If liberals insist that enforcing borders is a job only fascists will do, then voters will hire fascists to do the job liberals...

The problem is intractable in America unless truly draconian measures happen. A society reaches a tipping point where there are so many guns floating ...

If not the U.S. then who? I would be fine with a strong UN that could fill the role of the U.S., and defend countries like Taiwan, Ukraine, Poland, S....

IOW, I'm not saying I support Hamas, but...

If thoughts are physical (and located somewhere in the brain presumably), and you imagine an orange, did a part of your brain turn orange? https://iep...

This is one of those cul-de-sacs of illogic Israel bashers run into. Should the Allies have won WW2? It's an easy question to answer. Or, at least, it...

Seriously? Ok, let's try that again: who should have won WW2, the Axis or Allies?

When you read, is there a voice in your head (i.e., subvocalization)?

Who do you think should have won WW2?

Which country do you think has a superior system?

Sounds good.

This sounds nice, but never works in practice.

The mindless rock preserves the footprint. To go from footprint to information requires a mind. How about my questions? Does a falling abacus process ...

The footprint can only become information if there is a mind that analyzes the footprint and interprets it a certain way, draws conclusions from it, a...

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