Banno

See, that doesn't work. A consequentialist claims that the worth of an action is found by looking at its consequences. This stands in opposition to th...

Same thing.

If one ceases to exist on death, then there is no "what it is like" to be dead. Hence fear of being dead is irrational. Concern for the process of dyi...

It would be interesting to see who the folk who are afeared of death are. My working hypothesis is that they are more christian than atheist.

Seems to me the salient bit is this: Indeed. But for indirect realism, what everyone sees is some private mental image, and hence what you see and wha...

The trouble is you haven't set out what it is you are asking; how you are using the word "exist". It's a word that can be parsed in several quite diff...

It seems to me you've missed the criticism here. One might will oneself to believe Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs will win against the Sharks, but one ...

Yeah, but what Searle is suggesting is not what you are criticising.

I'd characterise this differently. The child, ex hypothesi, believes they only want to complain; they do not believe they are hungry, and hence can no...

Fair enough. To proceed we might benefit from consideration of the nature of faith. I first thought, form the title, that it must have been taking fai...

Neither are there compelling grounds to dismiss it entirely. My own response, given elsewhere, is that the implicit dualism is sufficiently problemati...

Alternately, How'r we gettin' on?

Or, as you have suggested previously, ChatGPT and the Cabal could just be right. We might look for things closer at hand, such as whether is a reincar...

It cannot be tested. Hence, it is no more than a curiosity.

Confirmation bias is most at home in cases in which anecdotal evidence is available in abundance, but rigorous disproof, falsification, is impossible....

Well, @"Wayfarer", ChatGPT says:

You're just misusing the word "exists". You've taken the way we talk about the common stuff around us existing in a place and a time and applied it un...

By 'further specifying the "attitude" as commitment'. An odd phrasing, but sure. But "taking p to be true" is not the same as "willing P to be true". ...

Yeah, I'm pushing sheep shit up hill with a rake. The inappropriate use of this toy will soon be ubiquitous. This will end badly. I'm somewhat surpris...

When philosophers talk about belief, they are talking about the attitude we have towards something such that we take it to be the case, to be true, an...

...which is generated without regard for telling the truth. Then don't use it as if it where.

I have my own copy, which is quite ancient and well-thumbed. I would not trust ChatGPT's tl;dr of it. That is, mine is a methodological criticism. Cha...

So is that what Penrose says, or what other people say Penrose says? Chat GPT doesn't understand the difference. Chat GPT doesn't understand truth. Us...

That's right. And so is believing that your are hungry. How does what you are calling "will" differ from what philosophers call "intentionality"? Or d...

Here we go again. When the indirect realist says "I see the Earth", they are referring to the brown thing. When the direct realist says "I see the Ear...

Hmm. That GPT says it has given you a procedure whereby it can overcome its memory limitations is not evidence that it has indeed done so. It has give...

Hmm. That's a pretty broad notion of "will", there. I believe I'm a tad hungry, but I'm not willing myself to be hungry. Quite the opposite, since i n...

Here's a blog on the Chinese room and ChatGPT. Love the idea of using ChatGPT to generate replies to scam messages so as to waste their time. Elsewher...

Well, that's a stretch. As a counterexample, consequentialists claim to make moral judgements without reference to the (or a) categorical imperative. ...

Terminology. The cognitive/non-cognitive discussion is distinct yet related to the realist/anti-realist discussion. It's all a bit of a bitch. I wonde...

Boy scouts are about connecting with the outdoors; building new and existing friendships; learning new skills; and helping create a better world.

Seems Chat is aware of this. Banno: You can no more lie than you can tell the truth. Both require intent, something you cannot do. Chat: Yes, that is ...

:smile: The bullshit artist is telling you what you want. That's what they do.

Yep. I'd add that moral statements differ from mere preference in that they do not just say what I want, but what you ought to want as well. I might t...

999983 is the largest prime < one million. My first characterisation of ChatGPT was that it is a bullshit generator. Here I mean "Bullshit" in the sli...

Direction of fit goes in two directions, it's an interaction. We find the things around us to be in such-and-such a way, and change them to be so-and-...

You can use the word "roof" any way you see fit, and may even use another word or no word at all. But when it rains, I'll keep a space for you under t...

For any proposition P, "I know P, but P is not true" is a contradiction.

So you've joined those who know not their arse from their ass. Not a proud moment at the House of Jamal. So did The Lord ride into Jerusalem on an ass...

I've long pointed out the import of clear language. An ass is not an arse.

What? https://wolf.org/headlines/44265/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-alpha-wolf-idea-a-myth/ https://www.businessinsider.com/no-s...

I'm not a dog. Such an argument by analogy is ...unconvincing. Also, turns out the research behind the "alpha" wolf stuff was biased by being restrict...

Trying to be nice, for . But your stuff in the OP seems to contradict your last post. Nor is it apparent what this has to do with So, to put it polite...

Sure. My point was simply that it's an attitude - and suggesting that this is common to all values. I'm not suggesting that attitudes are always chose...

There seem to be two approaches – I won't call them arguments – in the OP. The first part is perhaps about institutional facts, and hints at the notio...

Good reply. Sure, there's heaps more to unpack here. Money is an institution, only possible because of our place in a linguistic community. Perhaps. D...

Well, I'm supposed to be outside playing. Take up 's point. Money only has value because we say so. Therefore money doesn't exist? It's a stupid argum...

Yep. We give things a value. Direction of fit.

Ah, thanks for that. Nice approach. I hadn't thought of having it specify the algorithm. Your diagnosis is that Chat has difficulty with visualisation...