RogueAI

I don't get this. If all minds disappeared right now, either the moon would continue to exist or cease to exist. There's no middle ground between exis...

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You have to see their code of conduct to determine whether calls for genocide against Jews are tolerated? That was the kind of answer that caused the ...

Major resignations at UPenn: https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/liz-magill

Why are supporting Trump then? He certainly doesn't think "everything should be legal". Far from it. I would think, based on what you've said, you'd b...

Does consciousness have a sliding scale of lesser and greater? I think it's like an on/off switch. One is either conscious or not, although the things...

Do you think death threats should be legal?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/07/business/penn-emergency-meeting-liz-magill/index.html "The hastily arranged meeting, which concluded by midday Thursday...

"An overwhelming majority of Palestinians, both in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, expressed their support for the Hamas massacre on Oct. 7, a poll ...

You don't have an internal monologue/voice? Do you think Germany's DOW against America in 1941 was "just words"? Should death threats be legal?

Do you think there is something it's like to be a Venus Fly Trap?

Better than calling Nazi Germany "civilized".

But that's where it falls apart. Are you really supposed to tell the SS where the Jews are hiding?

White lies are the glue that holds society together. I believe a person can be considered honest even if they lie from time to time. What keeps me mos...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hamas-rape-israeli-women-oct-7-rcna128221 Hamas are a bunch of animals and the people who voted them into power are...

"The authoritarian and highly centralized presidential government of Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has set back Turkey’s human rights record by decades, target...

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/exclusive-voice-of-america-reverses-policy-against-calling-hamas-terrorists/ Good for VOA.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/students-world-suffered-huge-learning-setbacks-pandemic-study-105380696 This dovetails with what I've seen with my...

This is another example that shows we intuitively know we are not our bodies. Believing that we are an amalgamation of matter is like pounding a squar...

I don't buy that it was some nefarious plot by government to tyrannize citizens. I think the lockdowns were was just an overreaction, and if we had to...

I likened this in the other thread to a sort of Madonna-whore complex. Some of the people here hold Israel to an impossibly high standard, whereby Isr...

Conservatives in America don't particularly like Jews, but they loathe groups like Hamas, so supporting the Jews becomes a sort of "enemy of my enemy ...

What is Israel's end goal here? Are they planning an occupation? That would imply some sort of rebuilding effort.

How do conscious minds emerge from mindless unconscious stuff? Science hasn't answered it yet, and my belief is that science won't answer it because t...

I think the opposite: it begs the question how the world can continue to exist independently of the self (or selves).

If you were in charge of Israel, how would you have responded to Oct.7 attacks?

If a fact isn't talked about (or held in some mind) is it a fact? Also, there are infinitely many numbers, right? But there is a limit to the biggest ...

How could truth exist except in a mind? Here's a true statement: "The Earth is round". Now suppose all the minds in the universe disappear. Are the pi...

Thank you. I was thinking about Searle's Wall when I wrote that. But it may be too tangential to your argument.

Only if a mind is observing the pixels on the screen. Otherwise, they're just pixels on a screen. It takes mentation to turn the pixels into something...

Only implicate? I think cognition is a necessary condition for necessary truths. Are there necessary truths in a possible world without minds? If so, ...

But do I have a moral duty to help the poor child? Suppose I'm a sergeant and my platoon is in an urban firefight and this poor injured kid comes out ...

If your enemy isn't abiding by the Geneva Conventions, why should you? Does a nation have a moral duty to take the "high ground" in a conflict? Even i...

Thank you!

Sure, and one of the popular interpretations of QM is the Many Worlds Interpretation. I agree with Bernardo Kastrup that positing the existence of hug...

That's funny, I've used Occam's Razor to come to the opposite conclusion: the simplest explanation to explain the Hard Problem of Consciousness and th...

But they don't work both ways. The IDF doesn't livestream itself committing atrocities on civilians and raping women to death. Hamas fighters behave l...

We basically wrote Japan's new constitution for them. There was input from Japan, but everyone knew the new government was going to greatly resemble A...

A moderate Palestinian state would not have these human rights abuses: https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/palestine-stat...

People expect action from their leaders during times of economic misery. As FDR said, "The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country...

It's just a political reality that people aren't going to take an attack like 9/11 or 10/7 lying down. A leader who doesn't respond won't be in power ...

If you don't respond, your replacement will.

Tie between Violinist Analogy and Trolley Car

NBC poll has Biden losing against Trump for first time since 2019.

There's the crux of the issue: Hamas is evil, Israel isn't. Israel can be trusted with power, Hamas can't. A world under Israeli rule would be tolerab...

"Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank strongly support Hamas, October 7 attack A total of 75% of respondents agreed with the October 7 attack and 74.7% agr...

Where do you guys come up with this stuff? German Jews were not hellbent on destroying Germany. They didn't massacre German civilians, behead German b...

This kind of reality-denialism only shows up on the pro-Palestinian side of the debate.

Oct. 7th wasn't "significant harm"?

Except if the Palestinian people became pro-democracy and anti-Islamic terrorist, Israel would work with them. If Israel became pacifistic, and embrac...