RogueAI

Well, he's the president. And we're attacking another country! How do you avoid it??? The NYTimes is solid, though.

You think you're seeing regime change? We've seen America do regime change. This is not regime change. I don't think Israel is doing it either. I thin...

I don't think it is obvious. Many of you here are having a very hard time putting yourselves in Israel's shoes and seeing the culpability of Iran here...

That was undoubtedly part of it, but remember that almost all of the hijackers came from SA, and we haven't done a thing to them. The nonAmericans her...

Yes, because there's a literal clock in Tehran counting down to the prophesized destruction of Israel. Maybe stop doing stuff like that? They don't ha...

Yes, it does. After Gulf War 1, if Iraq had been completely transparent about the end of it's WMD program and destruction of all it's WMD"s, do you th...

I think any claim that consciousness can emerge from matter is an extraordinary claim.

I believe that if Iraq had been fully cooperative with Hans Blix and his team, they could have avoided that war. Possibly not, but Iraq is also a spec...

Or they can look at their neighbors who aren't getting bombed and just abandon the nuke program.

This goes back to the question of whether Iran is rational or not. I believe they're rational. They haven't disrupted shipping, they made a pathetic f...

Well, is there something it's like to be an electron? Is that an extraordinary claim? Is there something it's like to be a 3 pound meat blob in a skul...

:lol:

They should have a reliable backstop of nuclear energy always available to shore up production shortages from renewables.

You don't think Iran looks incredibly weak and pathetic right now?

Trump extends an olive branch: "Most importantly, they’ve gotten it all out of their ‘system,’ and there will, hopefully, be no further HATE. I want t...

But I'm not so sure that LLM consciousness IS an extraordinary claim. And if it is, does panpsychism make extraordinary claims? Idealism? Materialism?...

Imagine a possible world where superintelligent conscious machine intelligences come across a human for the first time. Wouldn't they be incredulous t...

It's a little different when the Ai can talk to you like a person, and pass the bar exam, help you with retirement planning, do your homework, be your...

NBC News’ Richard Engel says the nature of the strike and the well-defended target indicate Iran’s retaliatory strike was a “symbolic attack.” Qatar w...

Ah, I see. Iran wins if they get beaten to a bloody pulp but manage to avoid complete annihilation. Right. Your claims about air supremacy are fantast...

Iran is not going to militarily win against Israel and/or America. They are being bombed at will at this point. Their retaliation against Israel has s...

The stock market is up despite all this. Oil is down. It's priced in that Iran will take it like a whipped dog.

How would that happen? Nothing going on in the Middle East will change the fact the U.S. military is the strongest in the world, the U.S. economy the ...

A face-saving attack not designed to do much damage or something worse? They would have to be crazy to hit back hard with Trump in the WH.

They also attacked one of our bases and put a bunch of soldiers in the hospital with TBI's, but it was still very weak retaliation for taking out one ...

That's for sure. Iran needs to stop being a theocratic terrorist exporting shithole hell bent on acquiring weapons grade uranium. Why are they enrichi...

This!

But they've seemed like rational actors. In the past, they seemed to know where the red line is and walk right up to it without going over. They playe...

"Iran has enriched uranium particles up to just short of weapons grade, placing further pressure on western powers to issue a third censure of Iran at...

Really? You think the bombings would continue if Iran agreed to abandon it's enrichment program and allow UN inspectors access to any sites at any tim...

I remember Shock and Awe all too well in 2003, but what is Iran going to do about this? Does the ruling regime take the diplomatic offramp or escalate...

Idealists don't play in traffic?

ChatGPT, it seems if an omnibenevolent God pulls the lever in trolley car, it leads to a problem of arbitrariness in edge cases (e.g., running over 3 ...

War. War never changes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSq5aCZO5n8 The only possible solution is to let women run the world. This I endorse wholehear...

That's not why Biden essentially allowed an open border to fester. The Biden admin wasn't that strategic. Many Democrats had come to believe the Trump...

I've always believed anything's fair if your cause is just. For example, Churchill would have been justified using chemical weapons and torture agains...

Aren't you pretty libertarian, though? You really like seeing tanks roll through the capital?

Same with the military parade. Events, dear boy, events.

We had the Norden bombsight, which was precision at the time (turned out to not be very good). We used that a lot, but we also did a lot of indiscrimi...

We did the same thing in WW2.

Why aren't they attacking U.S. bases in the region? There's no Iron Dome protecting them.

Looking like he was a right wing Christian nut, but whatever political persuasion he turns out to be, things are getting kind of ugly.

Haven't we been here before? I remember another Middle Eastern adventure predicated on stopping Iraq from getting nukes. Turns out, they had no nuke p...

But that's also true when the Nazis ask you where the Jew is hiding. You lie to the Gestapo, right? But it's possible the Jew is a serial killer or so...

If an immigrant's only crime is coming here illegally, I don't have a problem with people breaking the law to shield them from deportation, as long as...

That's certainly a concern!

These kinds of things have a way of spiraling out of control. 20% of the world's oil goes through the Strait of Hormuz. Suppose Iran chooses to shut t...

I think it strikes people as kind of dictatorial and goes against the example Washington set. But you said it's a problem to have career politicians. ...

Why is that a problem? Lincoln made it a career and I think he was awesome.

I'm not a huge fan of politicians, but what you're saying strikes me as overly cynical and a kind of moral cowardice. In my life, I've seen good and b...