ToothyMaw

Definitely not, I thought we actually have been having a good conversation. I didn't intend it as an insult, sorry if it came across that way. No, he ...

Btw - I never claimed that God couldn't have special reasons only they have knowledge of for allowing injustices. But I fail to see any, and it wouldn...

Are you even trying to understand what I am saying? Why does God potentially being totally incomprehensible mean that he isn't responsible for the inj...

No. I haven't. God could be that unfathomably complex machine yet still be a being that cares not for enacting justice at all. And that makes him unju...

If God cared, you don't think they would do something? Would God pussyfoot around so that we can have arguments like these? I think not. If God doesn'...

But largely that is the God people actually argue for, not some deistic/agnostic formulation, and, thus, that is what I am addressing.

We have plenty of evidence, however, that God does not give a flying fuck about people getting what they deserve, at least as we understand it. The cl...

My point is that if one argues that God exists - and since all of the arguments that apply for the existence of any type of God apply for an unjust go...

What an odd thing to say. I doubt God would suddenly intervene now of all times. Maybe it's time to give up on notions of being guided by some benevol...

Yes, but divine command theory is a bitter pill to swallow. So much so that many theists won't even entertain its implications.

Indeed. I just really doubt that a good God exists.

If God desires to even be ethical, that is.

God is not limited to being the universe according to any theist, at least as far as I know. Perhaps God is omnipresent, but he exists as an entity wi...

Then I'm not alone here. Not really, unless God were threatening me with death, or an eternity of damnation for defying him. It would be arbitrary if ...

Then we have to accept that God is an insane asshole that actually believes that serial rapists should not be punished except when caught? Are we allo...

Are you educated in anything other than philosophy? And like T Clark said: your English is good. I think we could all stand to be a little less cantan...

I sort of agree with that, at least insofar as it expands choices. But one can act freely without having any more than two options really. Because tha...

I'm saying that an act is definitely irrational if it possesses no internal logic, and that if it has internal logic and consistent reasoning - especi...

Thanks for the quick reply! FW is the ability to choose between different courses of action unimpeded. This would imply autonomy and the ability to ha...

BTW not saying humans are all that rational, but rather rational some of the time quite consistently.

Bodily autonomy? The maximization of fulfillment of preferences? The future of the human race?

What are those goals? I think I might find it acceptable, whatever the AI might come up with. Maybe.

Okay that was funny. Yeah if they are doing their jobs right they can't really be described as benevolent. And no, TNT obviously can't fix stupid. Jus...

I'm certain robots could do better, especially given we could mold them into just about anything we want, whether or not doing so is ethical. To mold ...

Yes, it is unfortunate - now that it has been consigned to oblivion. I'll leave it alone.

Whoever deleted it obviously claimed it was low quality. Can he repost his old OP? I don't mean to get in the way but I at least thought it was good. ...

Holy shit that is hilarious

That's a really weird thing to say.

I think it would be hard to accidentally make a sentient robot. We don't even understand consciousness in the human brain. And the most powerful compu...

That's a lot to respond to, and much of it I can't respond to, because I would have to be significantly smarter than I am to come up with satisfactory...

I find such a thing *somewhat acceptable too, honestly. It could be programmed to consult humans before changing its goals, but that is kind of a cop-...

Yeah, I would say people do indeed look for meaning in suffering. Honestly not that much to be said about this other than that it is sad. People also ...

Well, thanks.

I honestly don't see why a robot as intelligent as a human would necessarily exist in opposition to human goals merely for its intelligence, autonomy,...

I don't fully understand what you are saying. Strong AI will be self-seeking, whereas a machine made for man won't be? BTW substantial edits are regar...

Was a photo or something intended to be shown?

Are you trying to get banned?

That requires an extra step - namely that the robots will have the capacity to become goal-oriented for themselves and will override the goals we give...

But there are so many things that could be accomplished with more advanced robotics lol. It could save and enrich so many lives.

At that point the pre-programming is insufficient, insofar as typical programming is insufficient. It would have to be programmed with human ideas of ...

Most traits brought on by hormone treatments are reversible btw, even if castration isn't.

It isn't even remotely believable to you that a biological man could be a woman? I think according to your own view a sex change would just mean that ...

There is authoritarianism on the left, and I could easily see an idiot believing that those two things are incompatible; if there are things that make...

This is indeed a problem, and I would start to solve this by proposing a system that models how people categorize themselves between man and woman. I ...

Except it does. Men overall sprint faster and have greater lower body strength. In fact, the biggest indicator of top speed is how much force one can ...

The science on hormone therapy? I know about it: many of the characteristics that result from masculinization or feminization can be reversed somewhat...

You obviously have no regard for what makes sports or fighting interesting and worthwhile. There were no elements of moral outrage in my posts over tr...

Have you ever heard of competitive martial arts? Fighting? There is a difference between a transgender woman smashing cisgender women because of a sev...

Honestly, sometimes I post things to gather my thoughts in one place and just see if it starts a discussion that forces me to rethink what I previousl...

I appear to not be able to find much information to support what I said. My bad. I'm looking at info on hormone therapy, and while most sex characteri...