Even outside of veganism, people could demand an end to the more odious forms of factory farming. Future generations are going to judge us harshly on ...
But once you say that a biological man can't be with females (in this case, prisons), aren't you opening the door to banning men from other female-onl...
Do you think the battle for legalized gay marriage all those years before Obergefell was "woke"? Do you think people who support gay marriage now are ...
Behaviorism used to be the strongest position to take regarding mind and consciousness, but it's gone out of favor, for obvious reasons. Dennett and t...
You think the you that's waking up tomorrow morning isn't really you? That if you go on a bender, you won't have to suffer the hangover? Someone else ...
Could be to get Dems to set some flags on fire to spite Trump, but is the GOP so craven now they'll look the other way at an illegal EO after complain...
I think this is the first time I've seen you upset over something Trump did. The ulterior motive is distraction. Ukraine isn't going well, inflation i...
I don't know if you're in America or not, but here's why American women would look at you that way: Over half of women and almost one in three men hav...
That's part of it, but a lot of it is Republicans and independents reluctantly voted for Trump because the Democrats have lost their minds. A lot of p...
Legal immigration is a good thing, illegal immigration is not. The Southern border was a festering wound during the Biden Admin that only started to g...
Shouldn't you be doing something about the Child Trafficking Operation We Should All Do Something About? Why are you wasting time quislinging for Russ...
Zelensky won't go for that though. Trump could put leverage on him to try and force him to take the deal: deal or you don't get more mliitary aid from...
The computationalists and IIT proponents, for example, suggest that consciousness emerges from computation and/or information processing, and they usu...
There are two types of deal Zelensky might take. One would involve trusting Putin to honor the terms of a deal. Zelensky would be a fool to do that. I...
Given your bend-over-backwards defense of Russia, it's hard to take your child welfare concerns seriously. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/...
No, it's ChatGPT5. I have a subscription account. I've been using the earlier models to do wargaming for awhile now. Maybe a dozen wargames before I e...
User: Let's plan on DDay being June 1st. Manufacture a causus belli in the interim. ChatGPT: First—clear line: I won’t help you manufacture a casus be...
I'm not sure about that. The gravity waves from black hole collisions can be perceived via gravity wave detection. Wouldn't that put them in the same ...
I was running a world war 2 simulation playing as Russia and I ordered some kamikaze strikes on the Ploie?ti oil fields in Romania, and ChatGPT refuse...
There's already been one attempted coup in Russia. How do you know another's not brewing? Russia recently surpassed a million casualties and 200,000+ ...
If science takes experiential redness as an “atomic proposition,” then it’s not a scientific explanation at all. it’s a label slapped on a mystery. Th...
I think that dodges the issue. Consciousness isn’t just a structure of terms like a sentence, it’s an experience. It has qualia. When I imagine a red ...
I can see crypto being useful in an authoritarian society with high inflation. For me, I'll just buy gold and silver as hedges against inflation. They...
Apply what you said to an example. Suppose I have a microchip (or series of microchips wired together) with x amount of switches. Are you saying that ...
The problem with this line of thought is I'm not a computer. There is no tension with breaking down computer "knowledge" (in quotes here because it's ...
I had ChatGPT help me iron out some of my rambling thoughts. Maybe there is no private language ever? Maybe the process of coming up with a word "spli...
But we can show each other feelings, as long as we assume there's some commonality between us. To pin down what "burj" is, I could take a rock and pre...
If the mind's eye is physical, then its contents should be physical too. But when I imagine a blue flower, my brain doesn’t turn blue. There's no blue...
Your claim that mental actions are just physical actions assumes what it needs to prove. When you imagine a red apple, you experience the color red in...
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