Forgive my ignorance - but isn’t a mature version of relativism just a context aware perspective? It’s a modus operandi and a process more than a trut...
I’ve got some reading to do ;). Will be fun! Might take some time - am too busy these days on a software startup (in addition to my normal software jo...
Well it has been 25+ years since I studied philosophy at mcgill and ubc. And I used to be able to name drop and think that meant something…. I believe...
Interestingly enough the last person who is thought to have known all knowledge was Thomas Young from a few hundred years ago when knowledge was still...
Intuitively we can speculate that some sort of loop / feedback mechanism that keeps it going would be part of the workings. But let’s crawl before we ...
Do you not like the term AGI because you think about AI as a facticity as it currently is, and don’t believe there is a need to judge it based on a pr...
I was referring to the risks of the current iterative kind. And the risk is us, not the AI. My opinion isn’t very popular, as everyone likes the new a...
Great video thanks for posting it! Anyways ya. Maybe i am wrong. Ok by me, but am trying to figure out where. …. To reply: Interesting. So you don’t b...
Assuming you have alternate valid things you can accept, that are both logically sound…. Then your decision is a moral decision. Assuming you like tha...
I like the hand written copy. Just for aesthetic reasons. The focus here on the cogito: at issue seems to be what someone accepts of the world. As a s...
Thanks. I do tend to ramble on a bit though haha. Just my take on it though, although I am always ready to be convinced otherwise. Looking for the mos...
It ends up being a critique of how we think. Aka how we logically thinks It is a resolution in that it posits that logic is in itself invalid except w...
Yes of course. The posit of the statement “certainty is relative” is an absolute statement. Absolute relativity is an oxymoron. The thought pattern le...
I’ll try…. But probably won’t succeed in answering your question. The ultimate question (no not the one with the answer 42), is how can we know that w...
Without being caught up in the predicates, the idea of the cogito is that the fact of thinking means that there is existence. Because thinking, existe...
It is interesting to think that perhaps: 1. The cogito is not a logical preposition 2. It can be - like anything else - be translated into a logical p...
Sure. Certainty is often restricted to tautologies. And new ideas are extremely rare. Expression and learning and finding your way to navigate the cha...
I am not a fan of extremism, left or right. Notice I included unbridled capitalism as a form of ideology that is in the same list as the others, and s...
Yes that is an ominous change in the lexicon. Ideology enforcement is what I was ranting about. Having an ideology isn’t in itself bad. It is good act...
True! Was thinking of a simpler model I guess: If x thinks, then x exists. And I guess if x is in a coma and is not thinking - or is successfully medi...
That is if a->b, then ~a->~b. Which is only true if you have a very limited and closed system or set to consider. Aka if there is no other way the gro...
Yes thanks for the correction. It’s been a long time since I was doing logical proofs. Most of the time now I’m just coding in c / c++ / c#…. Right. N...
IMHO there is no more problem with one religion more than another…. They are all capable of the worst traits imaginable. Really the religion question ...
So sophistry is the logic? That is a game and you know it haha. If you really believe in green cows (or think that is a justification for your argumen...
Well the operators in logic have to relate to something. And they are contextually relevant as that defines their set. Their axiomatic assumptions So…...
So not existing, implies that it thinks or doesn’t think? That is invalid. It obviously doesn’t think. Real world example? Or are we playing games wit...
[ No. P may or may not be capable of thought. A coma vegetable for instance. Or P may be an amoeba. Or a philosophy professor. But that fact does not ...
P -> Q. P thinks. Therefore it exists. P can’t be said to not exist if it thinks. If P doesn’t think. It may or may not exist. For instance P may be d...
1. Accept existence 2. Accept causality in support of existence. 3. Fail to make sense of causality. Reject it. 4. Accept eternity in support of exist...
I am thinking this based purely on induction, so I don’t believe it. But I think it possible: All the main players and people worried about AI aren’t ...
Thanks for the book suggestion. Will take a read, I can guess at what slow or fast thinking mean (already to me)… but that’s a mistake. Won’t need wax...
Or put another way - a neural net learning algorithm / linear function set is a mechanism that when run looks like what we consider to be analogous to...
I do marvel at the learning that happens and how patterns can be put together. I just balk at calling that intelligence / mental abilities / on the wa...
Wouldn’t intentionality be ascribed to a mind? How would that help in determining if something is a mind? Because it looks like it? Keep in mind that ...
Interesting video, thank you Programming the recognition of a pattern range. Just not sure how that helps to consider a program as intelligent. Again,...
Of course appearing to be x…. That opens up a more interesting can of worms. I am not saying there is no possible justification for belief from experi...
Don’t forget that a chat bot has access to everything ever published, and is free to plagiarize its responses / combine pieces (let’s not get into leg...
I thought you were making an argument. Based on first principles or something like that But the links you refer to - It looks like you are just showin...
Will do I’ll get back to you Just seems that a more complicated program is still a program. Is appearing like something the same as being that somethi...
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