RogueAI

I think the idea that a certain combination of matter combined with an electric current can produce consciousness is absurd. I also think the panpsych...

Right, but what's the endgame? America can fund a proxy war for quite awhile, but we have notoriously short attention spans. And who's going to fund t...

Ukraine is riding high, so is now the time to deal? The U.S. and EU peoples won't back a proxy war forever. Already you're hearing grumbling from the ...

But Barticks is right about this.

J.J. Thomson effectively demolished the case for forced pregnancy in cases of rape.

Consciousness cannot be reduced to systems of neuronal activity. Physicalism claims that if you take a certain amount of non-conscious stuff, assemble...

Both parties in America are getting tired of the war. Ukraine is going to have to wrap it up in the next 6-12 months.

You're right. It was to denazify a country run by a Jew. That makes much more sense.

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Maybe we can end this without blowing the world up.

No, it isn't. Putin tried for the easy land grab and it's blown up in his face.

https://www.salon.com/2022/10/11/ukraines-victory-almost-a-done-deal-military-expert-on-how-invasion-imploded/

The problem is you can never get "inside" the black box and verify if it is conscious or not.

Are you claiming the Russian army has been competent???

Why can't it end with Russia being driven from Ukraine? Do you think it's a foregone conclusion they'll use nukes?

MacArthur wanted to use nukes in Korea. Thank God he got cashiered. It must have been tempting though, at Chosin.

America has been humiliated on the battlefield without resorting to nukes. We've lost entire wars without nuking anyone.

Is Putin financing any of this with his vast amounts of wealth? His net worth is supposedly in the hundreds of billions.

I blame young people. If they had turned out in halfway decent numbers for Clinton, the Supreme Court would look much different.

Nonsense.

Ironically, Trump supporters would fight you tooth and nail on all of that.

:100: Materialism, as you say, is impossible to verify. And it also leads to a very big unanswered question: how can minds arise from mindless matter?

https://ridl.io/en/the-russia-ukraine-war-100-days-in/

https://warontherocks.com/2022/05/would-we-do-better-hubris-and-validation-in-ukraine/

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/three-possible-futures-for-a-frozen-conflict-in-ukraine/

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/woman-fatally-shot-man-who-fired-rifle-into-party-crowd-police/3063451/ "“Instead of running...

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https://warontherocks.com/2022/05/the-battlefields-of-the-donbass-and-beyond/

I told you why I don't engage with you: you're dishonest.

"On 24 April the head of the world’s largest ship manager, René Kofod-Olsen, urged Nato to provide naval escorts for commercial vessels passing throug...

Aside from murdering Ukrainians, Russia is going to be responsible for the starvation of a whole lot of people.

" also understands that if a democratic Ukraine is allowed to gain strength and prosper, it will likely inspire Russians to seek similar changes in th...

Lame.

What part of her argument do you disagree with?

https://www.anneapplebaum.com/2022/05/23/defeating-putin-is-the-only-route-to-peace-in-ukraine/

It's possible a computer producing random words could pass the Turing Test a million times in a row. It's incredibly unlikely, but there's a possible ...

The unlikelihood isn't the issue. The issue is that we're getting an intelligent response from a "dumb" system (a system that produces things randomly...

There is some possible world where a computer randomly puts words together and produces great works of literature. Is that artificial system intellige...

Sure. Suppose you have a computer with no programming at all. All the switching operations inside it happen randomly. It is possible, though incredibl...

By "true" intelligence, I mean actually intelligent, as opposed to mimicking intelligence.

Yes, I can imagine a computer that isn't conscious easily passing a Turing Test and giving intelligent answers to questions. Would that be true intell...

What else besides brains can be conscious? Can a computer be conscious?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZVXYaQz1lw (Russian Invasion of Ukraine - 80 day update - Cold War Special)

Fundamentally, it's a question of how mindless matter, when arranged a certain way (e.g., functioning brain), can produce a mind. We're no closer to t...

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I don't think anything was going to deter Putin from invading Ukraine except its membership in NATO. He thought he could just waltz in and take over t...

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https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-14

https://warontherocks.com/2022/05/counter-attacks-and-can-kicking-in-the-russo-ukrainian-war/

Good recap of what's going on in Donbas. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/05/10/russia-s-long-shot-in-the-donbas