RogueAI

Ukraine is not going to emerge from this unscathed. Their losses will be considerable. But they have rich friends in their corner, and they're going t...

Seriously? David (Ukraine) fights until the bigger country (Russia) cries uncle and leaves. Even if David breaks a couple arms (damage to Ukraine), wh...

Like Wayfarer said, there aren't two sides to every story. Climate change is real, and the reality of the Holocaust is not "Western Propaganda". This ...

I don't think anything would have prevented this war. Putin thought it would be a cakewalk, and the West was too dependent on his energy to do anythin...

If the enemy is getting mauled, the truth is its own propaganda. We don't need to make anything up. Russia has committed a catastrophic blunder, and i...

Russia can seek and aim all it wants, but after a month of fighting all they have to show is control of some breakaway areas and Zelensky backpedallin...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/23/up-to-40000-russian-soldiers-killed-wounded-captured-or-mia-nato-says.html That's in one month of fighting. Those are ...

OK, what military objectives has Russia achieved so far?

The whole organism is not a necessary condition for consciousness. You can remove quite a bit of an organism before it loses consciousness.

They haven't even achieved air superiority. I don't think it's "Western Propaganda" to claim the military campaign has been anything but a disaster, f...

I've been teaching elementary for 22 years. I noticed that when phones became commonplace, I lost my captive audience. The stuff I need to teach them ...

What about a mechanical functional equivalent to a working brain? What would have to be added to digital computation for a computer to be conscious?

Agreed, but a program that can pass the Turing Test and is begging not to be deactivated because it's conscious should certainly give people food for ...

I wasn't evaluating Olivier's comment as a response to you. I was merely highlighting the fact that, in the Cold War, there were good guys and bad guy...

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You must be joking.

Would you still support Russia if they use chemical/biological weapons?

I think the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified. I would not support NATO's use of nukes, except in retaliation for Russia's use ...

Would you still support Russia if they use nukes?

Sure it is. Our whole justice system depends on accurately blaming parties and meting out punishment. What kind of punishment do you think Putin deser...

What percent of the blame do you think Putin deserves for invading Ukraine?

Would you still support Russia if they escalate and detonate a tactical nuke in Ukraine?

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That's one of the reasons why they're the bad guys.

We had to destroy the village in order to save it.

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Thanks for the response.

What, specifically, is Russia afraid of wrt neo-nazi's?

Indeed. If this thing goes nuclear, Russia will be to blame.

Is there a popular nazi-esque leader that could plausibly become dictator? And do the neo-nazi's in Ukraine have significant political power? For exam...

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I don't know what would happen to my consciousness during gradual brain replacement! The thing about the Matrix (and computer consciousness) is that, ...

Address this, please: "Gradual uploading: Here the most widely-discussed method is that of nanotransfer. One or more nanotechnology devices (perhaps t...

I was getting ready to post "nonsense!" to your reply, which I was sure was going to say that introspection is useless. Clever!

To do that, we need to know who screwed up, so we don't repeat their mistakes. What percent of this mess do you think is Putin's fault?

There is no understanding consciousness without introspection either.

Just to be clear, you think Putin is to blame for invading Ukraine, right? And that Putin did an immoral thing by attacking Ukraine?

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The Chuchlands are smarter than me too, but that doesn't stop them from being eliminative materialists, which is a bonkers position. Smart people get ...

The stomach digests, the brain...minds??? That isn't right.

We obviously don't agree, but you have made a spirited defense of Randian philosophy! I salute you!

That's a knock on your philosophy. The LHC and Hubble and moon landing and ISS have been net goods. Not huge net goods, but net goods.

Can you respond to my point about scientific projects? How would a Randian society fund large-scale projects that don't return a realistic return on i...

I'm not exactly sure either. My understanding is they got a bunch of neurons to act as logic gates and coupled it to some software/hardware and taught...

How would large-scale science projects be funded? Say, the moon launch or Hubble Telescope or LHC. There is no realistic profit-motive for these proje...

I think Rawls has the right approach: if I was going to be placed in a society, and didn't know what my place will be in that society, I would like a ...

That's true, but to implement your system, and hope that charities can take up the slack, is quite a gamble. We have a system now that takes money fro...

Here's my problem with that: there are irresponsible people in this world. They have kids without planning for it. Sometimes their kids have problems....