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IMO, your un/mis-informed "4 precepts" are incoherent or false (as I've pointed out), so their "evidential values" are negative (à la e.g. candy cotto...

Nonsense. :roll: Clouds, waterfalls & digestion, for examples, are not "intelligent". Primate digestion does not adapt and yet viruses do adapt. Again...

Evidentially, metabolic self-replication does not entail metacognition, or life –/–> intelligent life (i.e. "intention & purpose").

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Yes, and that "good in (our) world" is – has always been, IMO – the chrysalis from which butterfly-AGIs might emerge ... before we scarcity-catepillar...

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:cool: 4 out of 4 in 2023 ... The timeline of MAGA Loser #1's legal reckoning for his 2016-2023 crime spree (excluding potentially ruinous civil lawsu...

Probably because h. sapiens are about a chromosome and a half away from p. troglodytes (chimpanzees). The history of h. sapiens' dominance hierarchies...

Inspired by @"Amity" & @"Jack Cummins" How about this mix of objective & subjective assessments?

What do you think of this: Specific enough?

:up: @"Hanover" @"Maw" Any guesses how much bail the judge will set for Seditionist-Traitor-Rapist1 in Fulton County, Georgia?

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So what should a new poll measure that the current poll doesn't?

I think the real test of how much interest there is in participating comes after the poll closes and authors are revealed because then readers can dia...

I was born and raised in NYC in 1960s-1970s. My father's family was from the Old South. I lived in Atlanta from 1996-2002 and again from 2016-2022, al...

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My guess is the "J6 trial" will be set for March '24 – the "Falsified Business Records trial" in Manhattan will be moved from March to ??? – and the d...

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I'm sure it has – we're all learning, Jack – except for Amity who's been a brilliant reviewer / reader from the start. I wish I could restrain myself ...

From a year-old post ... News flash @"NOS4A2" – Anti-"Deep State" Federalist Society legal scholars argue that Seditionist-Traitor-Rapist1 is CONSTITU...

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From an old thread "The Problem of Evil"...

So "writes" (a) ChatGPT? :yikes: :chin: :smirk:

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yet amused! A Rabelaisian jaunt à la Molly Bloom's run-on stream-of-bawdiness. I'll take a leap here and say this story is about everything. All of it...

Yeah. But I don't read the sentence as "illuminating shadows" per se but, in context, slightly elided ... ... shadows moving – that's what is illumina...

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Well I'd still have to list the titles and check each one off as I read them (one, two or three checks for no vote, "It's okay" or "I enjoyed it", res...

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Maybe there's a missing refrain. But then "free" of what? – yesterdays? aging? desires ("baby marrow")? – becoming?

For me, it's sort of reminiscent of The Castle in Gormenghast. Good writing, but I didn't feel feel anything.

Robbie Robertson - lyrics & guitar, d. 2023 https://youtu.be/kBGSf9kViEY

On my second reading I decided it's okay. I suppose I want more ... but then he's caught in a loop (real or imagined), right? Reminded me of Meursault...

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Evolution explains the development of life and not its origin like (so called) "creationism", so it's no more a substitute for an inexplicable (allege...

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You've overthought this "friendly competition" to the point where the plain meaning of "It's okay" becomes less than "It's okay". Post your confusions...

Have you read Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men? The US southern border has always had, at most, "frontier justice" ... and still does. The sto...

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Also reminds me of Hanover but I suspect it's Baden ... or unenlightened. :smirk: