ToothyMaw

When I say six choices would be preserved, I'm saying that the choice of when and where one dies for five people are preserved if the person on the lo...

So, for you at least, the important thing to consider here is the freedom to choose when and where one dies, and for what. That is 100% not what I exp...

Why might you switch the track if doing so would save the five lives without resulting in a death?

So then do the metaphysical properties we attribute to minds arise from the interface between our subjective thoughts and the material reality we perc...

Hey, welcome to the forum. I hope you stick around, because I like the substance of your first post. It follows the course you allow it to, methinks; ...

Sorry for not being clearer and more direct with my response to your statement, which wasn't even a yes or no question. I just kind of glazed over whi...

For me it comes down to: do we want to correct for the particular injustice in the most precise, straightforward way, or do we want to make the most o...

If I had to answer yes or no, I would say no. I want to say that yes, the descendants of slaves should get a payout, but it is too fraught with practi...

Thanks for the positive affirmation. But what is the conclusion? Can there be a conclusion? I mean, if we were to take the hard objectivist position, ...

I think I see where I'm going wrong. A relative truth would be that relative to a society of evangelical Christians, gay marriage is indeed wrong on t...

It is actually presented as relativism vs. objectivism in the OP. A bunch of people, me included, got it mixed up though, presumably when they tried t...

You are confirming my point, I think. I'm saying that we cannot evaluate the laws of physics in two universes in some sort of relational, connected ma...

I think one can view many truths as being objective, and others as being somewhat subjective. Thus, I think the specific topic at hand is important in...

The point of invoking that example was to show that we can indeed connect a group identity to the really bad acts of a subset of that group, even with...

You should respond substantively, instead of getting indignant. Or at least be substantive in your indignance. I'm not sure which pattern you are refe...

Noting where I said that it is masculinity, and not something inherent to men: how am I a sexist for saying that?

That you took what I wrote so literally is surprising. It was intended to show that I think your arguments are absurd, unserious boilerplate garbage a...

Where did I attribute a fixed set of characteristics to anyone? White people discriminate against black people regularly, and this discrimination is p...

What are these "juicy apples", that so apparently form a homogenous group of sweet fruits looking to be peeled and eaten, with skin color for some rea...

If I were to say: white people ought not discriminate against black people as much, and ought to listen when black people claim they are experiencing ...

Upon re-reading your comment I think you are saying directly that reparations could be justified a hundred years ago. My argument still stands, howeve...

First off, clearly many of the descendants of slaves believe that they should be compensated, as the overwhelming majority of people of color believe ...

Like I said in the OP, it would be on the basis of being the descendants of slaves, not merely on skin color. Furthermore, I believe that slavery, and...

I categorically think we should help disadvantaged people in general, and reparations is just one part of that. But, like I said to T Clark, it is als...

Can't tell if moron or troll. You have 100 posts and have been a member for 5 years, so it seems very unlikely that you would lurk so long just to get...

This is good. But the exploiters are no longer alive, clearly. I think you know that I'm suggesting that our government ought to pay for these damages...

First off, no, I don't believe that, and second, should we not try to compensate people at all even if it isn't nearly enough? Do you think that no re...

If this were true, then why are the majority of people of color in favor of reparations? Would reparations not be giving the people who suffered the m...

Yes, I am also white. I am using that example to represent some of the most extreme conditions - the predicaments I alluded to in the preceding paragr...

:100: Agreed. But surely people exist on a spectrum of self-sufficiency, especially once they reach adulthood? I mean we could give "self-sufficiency"...

You have been vomiting word salad for the last three posts and seem determined not to make any serious contributions to the discussion. I'm only sayin...

Clearly you are determined to cast whatever I say in a bad light. When I say "deal with", I mean "interact with". I think that's obvious. And I don't ...

I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you are trying to say here.

I'm confused. I linked the interview because he has some bad negative symptoms, not because he is a bad guy. Negative symptoms are really detrimental ...

What you are doing in moving from the general to specific is precisely what prescribes to make sense of the fact that perceived probabilities are ofte...

I think part of what makes an outcome significant is whether or not it can be attached to a hypothesis, much like how pointed out that the person play...

So instead of having a diminished idea of how rare it is for apples to fall on your head due to a perception that they may only fall from trees, you m...

So the person playing cards is deceived by the apparent improbability of the dealer getting those two hands? I mean, the person playing cards could ve...

Okay, so you are basically saying that people perceive probabilities based on how rare they perceive an occurrence to be when really the chance of get...

I definitely do see what you mean. I'm not arguing against an ethical framework, I just think that moral realism isn't going to help kill the threat. ...

I'm pretty certain AGI, or strong AI, does indeed refer to sentient intelligences, but I'll just go with your definition. Yes, handing the reins to a ...

If you are suggesting we root our ethical foundations for AGI in moral facts: even if we or the intelligences we might create could discover some mora...

Okay, so it is possible to have a first step. If I could, say, produce an equation based on the one in my earlier post that could calculate the last t...

Really? What if one were to begin by summing each interval as represented by a bijective function like f(n) = 60/2^n where n is a number in the natura...

And you are right anyways; I should have been clearer that I didn't think we would ever actually finish counting the number of intervals given time is...

It's all good. :up:

I know, I'm saying the second part as the alternative to time being infinitely divisible.

Can we not count the intervals starting with 1? Would that number not tend towards infinity given time is infinitely divisible or approach a certain v...

I thought about it even more and came up with another argument. I hope you and Bob haven't hashed this one out yet, because I'm not going to read your...

I thought about it some more and came up with a somewhat convoluted counterexample that, under certain constraints, might show that your first thesis ...