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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...
August 16, 2023 at 00:24
Nonsense. :roll: Clouds, waterfalls & digestion, for examples, are not "intelligent". Primate digestion does not adapt and yet viruses do adapt. Again...
August 15, 2023 at 20:26
Evidentially, metabolic self-replication does not entail metacognition, or life –/–> intelligent life (i.e. "intention & purpose").
August 15, 2023 at 17:55
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August 15, 2023 at 10:21
Yes, and that "good in (our) world" is – has always been, IMO – the chrysalis from which butterfly-AGIs might emerge ... before we scarcity-catepillar...
August 15, 2023 at 09:50
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August 15, 2023 at 06:50
: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...
August 15, 2023 at 03:07
Probably because h. sapiens are about a chromosome and a half away from p. troglodytes (chimpanzees). The history of h. sapiens' dominance hierarchies...
August 14, 2023 at 22:44
Inspired by @"Amity" & @"Jack Cummins" How about this mix of objective & subjective assessments?
August 14, 2023 at 22:07
What do you think of this: Specific enough?
August 14, 2023 at 20:37
:up: @"Hanover" @"Maw" Any guesses how much bail the judge will set for Seditionist-Traitor-Rapist1 in Fulton County, Georgia?
August 14, 2023 at 20:15
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August 14, 2023 at 19:38
So what should a new poll measure that the current poll doesn't?
August 14, 2023 at 19:31
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...
August 14, 2023 at 10:03
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...
August 14, 2023 at 00:16
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August 13, 2023 at 16:55
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...
August 13, 2023 at 03:51
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August 13, 2023 at 03:44
:clap: "Fuckin' Yay!"
August 13, 2023 at 01:53
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 ...
August 13, 2023 at 01:47
From a year-old post ... News flash @"NOS4A2" – Anti-"Deep State" Federalist Society legal scholars argue that Seditionist-Traitor-Rapist1 is CONSTITU...
August 13, 2023 at 01:02
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August 12, 2023 at 21:32
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August 12, 2023 at 21:26
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August 12, 2023 at 15:04
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August 12, 2023 at 06:50
From an old thread "The Problem of Evil"...
August 12, 2023 at 05:05
So "writes" (a) ChatGPT? :yikes: :chin: :smirk:
August 11, 2023 at 21:45
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August 11, 2023 at 20:00
Thanks.
August 11, 2023 at 11:36
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...
August 11, 2023 at 07:47
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...
August 11, 2023 at 05:49
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August 10, 2023 at 19:21
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August 10, 2023 at 09:42
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...
August 10, 2023 at 07:17
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August 10, 2023 at 07:08
Maybe there's a missing refrain. But then "free" of what? – yesterdays? aging? desires ("baby marrow")? – becoming?
August 10, 2023 at 01:45
For me, it's sort of reminiscent of The Castle in Gormenghast. Good writing, but I didn't feel feel anything.
August 10, 2023 at 01:35
Robbie Robertson - lyrics & guitar, d. 2023 https://youtu.be/kBGSf9kViEY
August 10, 2023 at 00:30
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...
August 09, 2023 at 22:04
Ice cream :yum:
August 09, 2023 at 19:52
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...
August 09, 2023 at 04:00
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August 08, 2023 at 22:37
:cool: :up: "I enjoyed it"!
August 08, 2023 at 21:44
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August 08, 2023 at 09:17
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August 08, 2023 at 08:32
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August 08, 2023 at 08:06
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...
August 08, 2023 at 00:32
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...
August 07, 2023 at 21:55
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August 07, 2023 at 21:44
Also reminds me of Hanover but I suspect it's Baden ... or unenlightened. :smirk:
August 07, 2023 at 11:26