RogueAI

If you think about it hard enough Russia is the real victim here! Do you ever stop and listen to yourself?

There's no difference between Stalin and FDR? You don't really believe that, do you?

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Do you think there's a moral equivalence between NATO and the Warsaw Pact?

The war could turn nuclear, which is a very serious threat to the Western nations (and the world). Everyone on the planet has a stake in what's going ...

That is really the central point, isn't it? The idea of government, using all its powers, to suppress certain types of speech is chilling. Shades of 1...

America is very rich, that's true.

Why do you think so many people try so hard to get into America?

I would argue the fine-tuning problem in cosmology leads to a disjunctive: either god(s) or a sufficiently large multiverse exist. Since the evidence ...

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I've reconciled myself to the fact humans won't prevent the coming climate change. Maybe there'll be a tech miracle that pulls our chestnuts out of th...

Biden's tapped the strategic reserve to release a million barrels a day to try and reduce gas prices. We became fracking kings under Obama. The Democr...

Interesting read: https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-3

The ratio of Ukrainian soldiers killed per Russians killed would matter if Ukraine was actually any kind of threat to Russia and diminishing Ukraine's...

Achievements have to be measured against the costs. Russia will have wrecked it's economy, become a pariah state, suffered grievous military losses, a...

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As an idealist, I disagree, but I realize my position is horribly unpopular, so maybe there's something to this "matter" idea. Everyone seems to think...

I don't know if they do or not, but if they do, panpsychism is much more probable.

That doesn't answer the question. We might not have to talk about bacteria feeling things, but that doesn't mean bacteria don't feel things. How do yo...

There's the rub. We can only infer consciousness in anything other than ourselves. There can be no direct evidence of any consciousness other than our...

Something it is like to be that thing; having subjective experience; feeling things

How do you know bacteria aren't conscious? Are insects conscious?

Why even assume matter exists in the first place? Idealism solves so many of these problems: minds don't come from matter, everything is mind. Life is...

I don't see why robotic entities can't be created through non-biological processes. This is unclear. When did consciousness first arise?

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No machine consciousness?

OK, that's close to where my thoughts are. Appreciate the response!

Make a prediction, Baden. Where are we in a month's time? I predict Russia will have made little to no progress. What say you?

You're not. Russia has committed a catastrophic blunder.

Very good analysis: https://warontherocks.com/2022/03/a-new-phase-of-the-russo-ukrainian-war-begins/

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Issac, you're not an honest debater.

The entire quote was: Next time, quote the whole thing.

Leaders in democracies DON'T monitor public opinion through polling? Is that what you think?

Nonsense. Leaders in democracies are obsessed with public opinion and constantly monitor it through public and internal polling.

It's pretty bad.

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Only in a democracy can you complain about your own government without fear of reprisal.

I think it's objectively true that in WW2, America was fighting for the good side and Germany was fighting for the bad side.

(3) should be "we're not really thinking about the world."

Let's make some predictions, Baden. I predict in a month's time Russia will be just as stymied as they are now and will control no Ukrainian cities, a...

Was that stalled convoy also part of the plan?

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To put the fire out. Do you really think there was some kind of moral equivalence between Nazi's using violence to round up and kill Jews and American...

You often have to fight fire with fire.

Interesting read: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/afghanistan/2022-03-24/putins-afghanistan

Maybe take a break from this for a little bit.

"Russian warship featured on Pro-Putin "RT" network one day prior to its explosion" https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-...

The Russians lost 15,000 men in Afghanistan after years of fighting. They've lost 10,000+ in one month fighting Ukraine. Ukrainians don't seem to need...

Yes, they can win. We've seen it happen before with this particular country bullying a smaller one: Afghanistan.