RogueAI

:up: I gave up. It's like talking to smoke.

But they are like "inner pictures". When I imagine a sunset it's like a picture in my mind. When I have a song in my head, it's like music is playing ...

Then let's build on it. Let's say the person-in-the-psychotic-rage-from-the-unforeseen-drug-interaction isn't trying to kill you, they don't have any ...

In all the back and forth, I forgot that you and Leontiskos never did answer my question about abortion and the pregnant 12 year old who was raped by ...

To a large extent, yes. These are weighty science-based questions, and we often have to depend on medical experts. They don't always get everything ri...

Except gays aren't mentally ill. That went out of style 50 years ago. So lumping them in with pedophiles and alcoholics and pyromaniacs does indeed se...

I'm not saying you're a Nazi, I'm saying you're going down an intellectual path of dehumanizing that the Nazi intelegentsia went down to rationalize t...

Alleged?

I didn't want to spend an hour writing a response to it. I'm backing out of the homosexuals-are-deviants arguments you and Bob are making. You two sou...

Because it establishes a moral principle: even if we concede the fetus is a person, abortion can still be permissible. Why are you pussyfooting around...

Thomson's violinist analogy was specifically about abortion in cases of rape, so it's not disanalogous to the 95% of abortions. It wasn't meant to add...

But in cases of rape, what say you about abortion? Would you force the 12 year old raped girl to have the rapists baby? Even if it's her dad or older ...

It's an action, but it's not an action taken against them. I am allowed to remove tubes that were put into me without my consent. Suppose instead of t...

This sounds like the kind of thinking that "smart" and "learned" Germans engaged in to rationalize going along with the Holocaust: Jews and queers are...

It's not murder. Innocent people sometimes can be justifiably killed. In the violinist analogy, if you remove the tubes from yourself that are keeping...

You quoted the ACLU, specifically, So then, what are your thoughts on the kind of health care trans children can/should get?

I would generally agree, but a lawsuit won't get your breasts reattached. Some harms can't be undone through legal recourse. So then, what do we as a ...

Why were you arguing that? It seemed that you were implying gay people are defective or need to be "cured" because they like anal sex, which is why I ...

But we can make it unique to trans individuals in that: should trans children have their breasts removed? A 17 year old? Maybe I can see that. A 14 ye...

Take the thought experiment to its logical conclusion: instead of the violinist being hooked up to you for 9 months, he's hooked up to you for 45 year...

Isn't it a human right for a child to not have her breasts cut off? Isn't that a uniquely trans gender issue?

I don't think it's a good idea to do mastectomies on 14 year olds. Do you? https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/ucla-student-sues-california-docto...

Yes, but just because something is more reproductively advantageous does not mean it's moral, or the people doing the reproductively advantageous acts...

Is mind a necessary condition for meaning?

My point is that gay men aren't the only ones with the desire to put their sex organs into questionable orifices. The fact that they desire anal sex w...

Thomson's violinist analogy is so obviously right in its conclusion, I can't fathom the thought processes required to come to the conclusion that, yes...

Straight man like anal sex too. In fact, men of all sexual persuasions will often stick their organ into just about any orifice handy.

It certainly trumps a right to life in cases of rape. Would you force people to stay hooked up to the violinist?

If some culture has a tradition of whale-hunting, should the global community allow that? Should people not care that a magnificent creature like a wh...

if the ai-using students are outcompeting the non-ai using students (or if its a "punishment" as you claim to write a thesis entirely by yourself with...

"Under a middle-of-the-road emissions scenario, warming contributed by Scarborough would cause an additional 484 heat-related deaths in Europe alone b...

What about hydrogen and oxygen? After all, we are mostly water.

Why would any element be a "heart of consciousness"? Consciousness can only emerge from pencil lead and coal??? How bizarre.

I'm sympathetic. How could there be true randomness in a physical universe? Sounds like an uncaused cause. Even in an idealistic reality, there wouldn...

That claim is accurate only if you’re assuming a deterministic universe, otherwise, quantum theory says genuine randomness does exist.

Could you expand on that?

How would you prove or observe machine consciousness? If a machine race of aliens showed up one day, and claimed they were conscious, and were dubious...

Is it possible some machines are conscious?

They're that good, huh? That's very interesting and kind of scary. I've only played around with ChatGPT.

I was just responding to what you said about bubbles and hype. There is hype around ai, but it's already been transformative. It's not going away. It'...

The Sora 2 videos I'm seeing don't look like hype. They look amazing, and the technology is only going to get better.

Except America is in an ai race with China. Some ai will become dominant. I would rather America win that race. Jesus, that sounds lame. Maybe my mach...

What are we supposed to do about it? There's zero chance the world will decide to collectively ban ai ala Dune's thinking machines, so would you ban A...

But the truths of mathematics seem a little more robust than ordinary truths. 2+2=4 is true in all possible worlds, but "all ravens are black" might o...

So information processing is the key?

But I'm not a children's book creator, nor do I want to be, nor do I have any talent at it. What's the difference between buying a book at Amazon vs b...

Why is that wrong?

You don't think Trump tried to steal the 2020 election? Do you think Jan 6th happens if Trump doesn't give that speech right beforehand? It doesn't co...

The head of the FCC said "we can do this the easy way or the hard way" and Jimmy Kimmel was suspended. Even Ted Cruz thought it went too far. It's not...

Perhaps there's already an AGI and it's starting a pro-ai psyops campaign to influence public opinion in message boards like this.