RogueAI

What's your take on Mary's Room?

I thought it was just if you were a member of certain occupations. Looking it up, I see California, the state I'm in, has no "duty to rescue". Only th...

OK, but if the materialist/physicalist model of reality keeps failing to explain consciousness (either by explaining how it happens, reducing it to br...

1), I'm not sure you should be forced to save a drowning kid. It would be nice if you did, but do we want government compelling charitable acts? 2) Fo...

Yes. If bodily autonomy is violated because of x, then it will get violated for y and z and pretty soon people are claiming that a woman can never hav...

I don't think it's complex. A woman's bodily autonomy right trumps the fetus's rights at every stage, even if it's a person at the moment of conceptio...

Physicalism/materialism has so far been unable to explain consciousness. At what point should we abandon the metaphysical assumption that matter can b...

I worked with an evangelical who adored Trump until Jan 6th and all the stolen election stuff. Then she did a complete 180 and hated him foreverafter....

There's also nothing new under the sun. If an advanced intelligence that has figured it all out tried to explain it to us, could we understand the exp...

I think you could explain the double slit experiment to them without too much trouble.

Are you claiming that QM would have been impossible to understand for the Greek atomists using nothing but their language and concepts?

So they care about climate change but won't take a couple hours every two years to vote about it?

Can't any concept be broken down into smaller understandable sub-concepts? Is there a theorem on that?

Sure, but we're having a tough time electing people (Democrats) who want people to make rather trivial sacrifices. The fossil fuel lobby (Republicans)...

This next American election will be illuminating because you clearly have one side pushing climate change policies and the other side pushing increase...

There's the rub. People don't want to make the sacrifices necessary to really combat the problem. Also, "While loss and damage was discussed at the Pa...

These trials would be a wonderful forum for Trump to prove the election was stolen. Doubtless he will try and do so, which begs my question: why does ...

" there is no "consciousness center" that has all sensory information flowing to it. Rather, there is a lot of parallel processing and interconnectedn...

You would probably need a point of comparison to figure out if you are high or not, but depressed? Do you have to have experienced non-depression to k...

Do we know with 100% certainty that we're in extreme pain? High? Depressed?

I'm almost directly in the path of Hurricane Hillary. Kind of weird to see a tropical storm warning for the High Desert of Southern California.

You can't get "ought" from science, so philosophy will always be around.

The Ruble's not doing too well. Worth less than a penny. https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/14/economy/russia-ruble-slump-ukraine-war/index.html

"Earth Just Had Its Hottest Month Ever. How Six Cities Are Coping." https://www.wsj.com/articles/july-2023-hottest-month-record-climate-change-5e5b309...

I love seeing the "lock her up" crowd in the maw of the criminal justice system.

"Trump’s tweet said, "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."" https://...

I prefer Ukraine win it's war against Russia, but I'm under no illusions what life in Ukraine would be like compared to my comfy existence in America,...

Kind of touchy, aren't you? It was a serious question. You seem to like Russia a lot.

Have you ever thought of emigrating to Russia?

What country do you live in?

Putin is the leader of Russia. Had he not wanted to invade Ukraine, it wouldn't have been invaded. Why did Putin want Ukraine attacked? What do you th...

"What do you mean by "Russia"?" I mean the country Putin is president of. If you prefer: why did Putin invade Ukraine? Although, that's an awkward sen...

Why do you think Russia invaded Ukraine? What was their primary motivation?

Isn't every biological process a chemical process?

That is a lot like Gettier's clock example in his paper on knowledge and justified true belief.

Suppose reality is as materialists claim it is. Wouldn't they then have knowledge of "base reality"?

Very well said. Materialists seem to have abandoned the idea of denying consciousness is a thing or waving it away by claiming mental states are ident...

"In the audio, recorded three days before the election and published by Mother Jones on Wednesday, Bannon told a group of associates Trump already had...

Bannon will likely testify that Trump had a scheme in place to claim the election was stolen if he was losing. That Trump, Bannon, Stone, etc. all tal...

Well, India and China are not going to give up fossil fuels. They arrived late to the party. They resent the First World wagging their fingers at them...

I see.

Is your position that we can dig up and burn gigatons of fossil fuels and nothing bad will happen? Doesn't that seem a little naive, even without gett...

Yes, the global sea ice decline is worrisome, don't you think?

"Sea ice around Antarctica reached its lowest extent on February 21, 2023, at 1.79 million square kilometers (691,000 square miles). That’s 130,000 sq...

Banana slippage is an existential threat?

"In the audio, recorded three days before the election and published by Mother Jones on Wednesday, Bannon told a group of associates Trump already had...

I think we're going to need a world government with some teeth because there are existential issues that keep popping up: climate change, Ai, genetic ...

I don't think that's it. I think people want cheap energy, vacations, and cars. They also want to combat climate change, but they really want cheap en...

Obviously, my point is there are a whole lot of people Trump has hired over the years who say terrible things about him now and/or implicate him in cr...

Also, everyone grapples with questions of purpose, meaning, ethics, duty, etc. I think these questions are a lot more important to people than how old...