ToothyMaw

My first thought it that one might prescind qualities from a concept that don't require adherence to a category such that that concept does not posses...

That would be difficult, as I think I can only speak to my subjective experiences, really, which kind of means I can't say that the world in its entir...

I appear to be the only who wants anything to do with this, for whatever reason. Yes, it is moral for Earth Crisis to align with PETA and vice versa. ...

Yes, Happy New Year to you too. You doing anything special? I'm not. edit: you don't have to answer that, lol. That kind of puts you on the spot. My b...

I think that this line of reasoning indicates the existence of the continuum is necessary if sweetness and properties like it exist so open-endedly in...

I'll have to think about what you mean by that, unless you can expound a little? I might be overreaching here, but this is what I think: What you are ...

Okay, this is how I see it: If there are many propositions that could express that certain things are sweet, and sweetness is constructed from the pro...

I think that it might be useful to look at the examples @"Mapping the Medium" has provided. In terms of the honey example, this is my understanding: y...

I'm reading about him on Wikipedia and the SEP and it appears he just transposed firstness, secondness, and thirdness (terms he used when he was feeli...

The first video, "Ecocide", was a little like being punched in the face. I definitely agree with the lyrics - I think they even capture an arguably ap...

No one is skeptical of you or your intentions, I think he just doesn't think much of AI.

I don't know if I've said anything that goes against nominalism, honestly. I would just separate the abstract notion of hardness from something actual...

Not that AI is useless. Maybe I'll read what you linked.

I got ChatGPT to tell me I solved the double-slit experiment once. Needless to say, it turned out to almost certainly be bullshit.

Yes, I think that makes sense. The object-subject relation between the honey and perceived sweetness is provided by relations that should be able to b...

This is the most rigorous representation I could come up with quickly of the current status of the example with the honey. The following argument can ...

You definitely helped me think about it more rigorously. And as far as I can tell there is plenty of room for more conjecture, so don't be glum! :up: ...

I would have to buy them. Maybe this coming month when I get my check. edit: didn't read the free account part

Not on its face, no. But I'll think about it. edit: yes, that makes sense

Your logic looks correct to me. S(hs) just reflects that honey is not intrinsically sweet. We know it isn't because the relation of being sweet in S(h...

That's a little vague. I suppose you are referring to that we cannot rightly perform a hypostatic abstraction if the thing in question does not posses...

I think he was just referring to the emission of light, which is directly related to the energy it emits. To take issue with the wording because it wo...

Yes, I would say it is intrinsic. There is either light or no light, and so long as a light exists it has a brightness. Therefore, the sun must have b...

No, because hardness is a trait associated with a continuum implied by our language and abstraction of the term. So, what is defined as hard can chang...

I would start by seeing if the language indicates that the quality of hardness can exist on a continuum and if such a thing can be measured. In the ca...

So, do you think there is sufficient correspondence between fructose/glucose and perceived sweetness (value judgment)? It sounds like you must if you ...

I think that since we just predicated the quality of sweetness to honey, we have to ask what the degree of separation the quality of sweetness has fro...

Think about this: if you were to have an android in your house that would help take care of your family or something, or even if we just had androids ...

I find that poem very compelling and think things may ultimately play out that way. I think Brautigan said more about it in a short poem than I could ...

A classic. If only it were so simple. And where is the Zeroth Law? Or was that never technically added to the fictional handbook?

Yes, I noted that that is the ideal case, but that it is far more realistic that any ethical android would inevitably get "stuck" on some moral proble...

First off, I think that it is true that self-reflection can be an action in itself, which I argue for below. But we know, even based on this linear ch...

How many things that guide your behavior do you think actually have intrinsic worth outside of, or regardless of, human views and judgments? Is it not...

I found the science educator. :razz: Sorry, leaving you alone now.

That is demonstrably false. Look at any effective activist that has ever existed. I never said anything about self-preserving. I agree: to disengage a...

Yes, but these instinctual reactions reinforce or modify our rational moral views by encouraging self-reflection. That is the impasse we find ourselve...

I'm going to have to disagree with you here, T. It is precisely because we cannot extricate ourselves from our emotions that we need to view them as h...

I think you are almost entirely right in this more traditional normative assessment. Regardless, I agree with the OP that it is still true that some a...

That moral outrage or similar mental events exist in the presence of, and often cause, notable moral actions is not to say that all instances of moral...

You are right, it looks like psychopaths at least have different brains and the only effective treatment is positive reinforcement with intrinsically ...

Yes, you are right, and even further, God could actually totally cease to exist and just make himself exist again if we ascribe to him powers beyond w...

I think I agree. But what about someone who is naturally close to being incapable of sympathy, compassion, kindness, etc.? Would it be wrong for them ...

Right. I agree that Hanover wrote "kingdom Come, Inc.", but that means I don't know who wrote "The Unrighted Leotard". Both are kind of his style, but...

Are you saying someone submitted an AI generated story?

Yes. And I also agree with: I find myself imagining an android programmed to adhere to a set of morals completely and totally without exception. It sh...

Really? The bear might attack you? I find myself considering that there is a chance that the man in the hypothetical might also be of a Barkonian pers...

I kind of see the emotional part of it as providing an impetus to act and giving us a bearing kind of like a compass; we know there are many ways of a...

I'm not saying that bear is the rational choice, but it is easy to see why a woman might choose bear.

I doubt that posting this tired hypothetical on the forum will net you any unique or original thoughts on the matter, but you have the right to post i...

If the person I think wrote this wrote this, they probably are a writer already, or so I would guess from what little I know about them. I'm not going...