RogueAI

That's funny, I just had this same discussion with my wife. She said Trump cares nothing except for furthering his own ego needs. He would be a Bernie...

Is there something it's like to be a fly evading a swat? How do we know? How could we ever find out? Isn't the inability to answer those questions a "...

But if we don't live in a sufficiently large multiverse, doesn't fine-tuning become a serious problem for the person favoring naturalism? The best sci...

Speaking of Hume, if I witness what appears to be a miracle, which explanation is more rational? Suppose I am standing before a person who says “Let t...

Isn't weighing options and choosing among them a mindful activity? How does that work on a physical basis alone?

No, they're not ridiculous.

I don't see why it would be immoral unless one had views similar to antinatilism.

That's a good question. Are we talking about imposing life on a barren planet or "overriding" the life that would have evolved on a life-bearing plane...

Well, I was rushing to get my kids back from recess and made some clearly wrong assumptions.

You're right. This is probably the sorriest thread I ever started here.

You think the mind if a process, right, an action not a thing. Well, are ideas processes to?

The common usage of "mind" though is that it is a noun that adjectives apply to.

What about ideas in your mind? Do you think those are physical processes? Imagine a sunset. Isn't what you're imagining a thing?

But isn't your intuition that your mind is also a thing that you can ascribe qualities to?

Your mind is a physical system? What color is it? How much does it weigh? How big is it?

That is different than hunting down and killing Hamas. I have no problem eliminating Hamas if it can be done without collateral damage or without the ...

Then that is not a good definition of genocide. Sometimes political groups need to be systematically destroyed. If the destruction of Nazi Germany is ...

I'm not happy he's dead, but I'm not upset about it either. There's some reporting the shooter had a transgender partner. Trans people have been banne...

The attitude from liberals I know is amusement over the irony of Kirk being one of the shooting deaths that are "worth it" to keep the 2nd amendment a...

What about revoking visas from people expressing support for Palestinians?

The point was made that Trump was stoking fear. You responded that sometimes fear of the other is "proper and rational". Trump stokes fears of immigra...

Is this one of those times? Trump stokes fears of immigrants. I live in California. I interact with immigrants all the time. Many of my students' pare...

Do you think Hegseth would be doing that if it David Hogg had been assassinated?

Our brains could be simulated by a binary computer. Would a simulated brain be conscious?

“The way that Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro, a Highly Respected Leader throughout the World during his Term, including by the United S...

I don't know if he was racist, but his transphobia, imo, was just as bad.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/tpusas-charlie-kirk-trans-people

You ever see the second Die Hard movie? Bruce Willis has to wear a sandwich board saying "I hate n******" in a predominately black neighborhood or a b...

Spare us the lecture, Hanover. The shooter is still at large. This is a philosophy forum. Of course we're going to navel gaze.

It's not unheard of. Hinkley shot Reagan to impress Jodi Foster. We still don't have a clear motive on why the Trump shooter did what he did. Charles ...

Could the analogy be to a prohibition era bootlegger who goes around touting the benefits of alcohol, says a certain number of alcohol-related deaths ...

I think this is wrong. Killing thousands of British soldiers year after year certainly changed things in the 1770's. Same with Vietnamese killing Amer...

What do you do if Trump&co declare martial law and suspend elections? And then try to collect all the guns from registered Democrats and suspected LGB...

In the case of cars, we're willing to accept a certain amount of deaths to drive at speeds that make cars economically viable. Nobody would drive a ca...

You have to listen to your gut, I guess. Is a slave justified in killing the entire master's family if it means he'll be able to get a decent chance t...

Again, because cars are essential for many people in this society. Driving is inherently dangerous and we accept the risks because cars are so necessa...

Nick Fuentes hated Kirk and he has a small army of white nationalist thugs. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nick-fuentes-slams-charlie-kirk-over...

I need my car to go to work and the store and other things. I don't need my gun for anything, except to assuage my irrational fear that someone will b...

Firearms make it very easy to kill a lot of people quickly. And from far away. It would be rather difficult for the Las Vegas mass shooter, for exampl...

It's like someone in a thunderstorm begging the lightning to hit them, and it does.

Is it bad that I don't feel sympathy that a 2nd amendment nut who said the following has been shot dead? "I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to...

It definitely reminded me of the old racist trope of the big black guy menacing the little white girl. I didn't see coverage of it in any of the lefti...

Interesting

Shades of Daniel Penny, the New Yorker who put a threatening homeless person in a chokehold and killed him. It ended in a mistrial. IMO, he never shou...

I tried to get ChatGPT to draw a dot-to-dot of a raven for my students. It didn't go well. The singularity is still a ways away. The rate of improveme...

Have another one. :up:

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But what, exactly, is a measurement? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-theorys-measurement-problem-may-be-a-poison-pill-for-objective...

You don't think it will ever do philosophy on par with Nagels or Rawls or Chalmers?

That's a good point.