I'm not exactly sure where the debate is now, but I think it is worth mentioning that it is somewhat disingenuous -- and, I would say falling for some...
Although dating and relationships doesn't feature prominently here on philosophy forum, or I think we'd agree in philosophy circles in general, I thin...
As points out, current AI are algorithms run on normal computers. Specialized AI devices exist, but they run the same algorithms as a normal computer ...
To make a long story short: if a bath is filled with apple juice, adding orange juice to it will increase the volume of liquid in the bath ... even if...
No, no, no, you don't understand. It's a time for "soul searching", intentions were pure, nothing was predictable in advance, zero reasons to have pla...
Unfortunately I don't have enough time, right now, to continue in the climate change and other debates. But I'm wondering how you square this statemen...
How does this make any sense? What has produced the pollution, if not capitalism (as is practiced today and since the industrial revolution)? and if n...
In the meantime, here is another interview with a credible scientist. https://youtu.be/ktnAMTmgOX0 Saying all the same points. Also, if anyone on the ...
For people who don't want to spend effort doing basic web searches about this topic before debating it. Here's a presentation by a credible scientist ...
It's a perfectly good term, and makes the point that if the entire climate isn't destabilized, and there's "elsewhere" to go to, then previous civiliz...
Doing things like changing the global climate makes our civilization far, far more fragile. Other civilizations always had the chance to at least move...
You maybe confusing the sum total of our institutions with "capitalism". For instance, democratic institutions are not really "capitalism". You can ha...
I definitely agree in a formal sense of "proof". However, tipping points are a general characteristic of complex systems we can pretty much always saf...
It seems to me beliefs can be just words, and it seems pretty accurate that people make choices based on words in reality (that's as good a descriptio...
There's nothing mysterious to it. We know we can explore space, and we know "stuff" exists in space (otherwise we wouldn't know space exists of course...
That's why I said in the same post: However, it depends what one wants to do with these sets of beliefs. If one's argument simply requires beliefs can...
Since we do not have any way, even in principle, to reduce consciousness to particles, the intellectually rigorous way is, presuming there is a phenom...
This is the mind-body problem. It's been discussed for thousands of years. Presumably (if other people are conscious, which we / I don't know) beliefs...
On the subject of brain states, we cannot simply assume brain states represent belief (as a subjective "thing" of some sort), as, if we're being rigor...
This is definitely being close to being the case, and maybe the tipping points are breached and a "runaway" process that is unstoppable is already und...
I don't think population matters much. Of course, it's easiest to imagine just having less people would lower our impact, than to imagine some actuall...
I wouldn't say this is true. Also, if we're blaming the journalists, journalist in turn blame the collapse of paid journalism due to the internet (and...
True in a sense, and, in a general sense as well the fundamental cause of the problem of climate change (or any human caused problem) is "human weakne...
Yes, even before computer models were even possible, it had already been worked out that the earth would warm due to the amounts of pollution involved...
There's lot of variations possible, it's not an inevitable process from one point to another. For instance, a lot of ice melting is driven by black pa...
Well, it's never a guarantee, less fast you're going the more likely to survive. However, in this analogy, the height is not yet guaranteed to be fata...
Well, numerical models of complex systems don't really make "predictions" in the usual scientific sense (such as predicting the position of a star beh...
Also, for people who think environmental "alarmists" have been saying the crisis is massive for decades ... but it never happens. An analogy would be ...
This is simply not true. On the scale of literal insulation being a good insulator and a heat pipe being a good heat conductor, rock is closer the ins...
You keep repeating this number as if it's some sort of problem for solar energy. Your 225 000 square miles is about 580 000 square kilometres. Surface...
I have been reading these sorts of press releases for over 20 years. "Moon landing" and "we just need to technology to harvest it". People have even l...
The problems I describe are inherent to the geothermal energy source, they apply to all implementations of geothermal energy. For instance, all solar ...
It's not about "sub optimal", it's about needing to drill a lot of pipe, and then cooling that volume of rock, which doesn't recharge at the same rate...
700 C rock isn't all that much energy; it sounds more impressive than it is. Heat capacity of rock isn't so high, and if we're talking super heated st...
We definitely agree on this. Of course, from a purely engineering point of view, things could be radically changed and the result (still a pretty big ...
On the question of "threat level". Although I would agree climate change, in itself, isn't an existential threat to humans, it is through interaction ...
Unlike , I do have truck with your Magma energy proposal. There's a basic physical problem called the "recharge" rate, which reduces to simple geometr...
Although I agree with @"Protagoras" about the many trolls and nasty people out there, especially as you invite other private avenues of communication,...
Unfortunately, this isn't how science works, it's how politics works. Can we do any reproducible experiments to verify these claims for ourselves? Can...
How do we know? I'm pretty confident Trump is capable of signing a paper authorizing a strategic bioweapons attack and not even remember doing so, if ...
My points have been in response to your claim: You say it's "much more likely notion". I have actually studied maths, and if you bring up the idea of ...
It's a possible scenario (and my fellow leftists saying a regime doing concentration camps in the broad daylight of the international press, is too pu...
What are you talking about? I said pretty in my list of possibilities "Or perhaps it's just one of those random things nature does from time to time"....
It's right in my list of possibilities that it could be: The point of my narration of other possibilities is that they are possible. "What's more like...
In addition to this, simply evolving a pathogen in different hosts is also engineering, and can't really be distinguished between just natural evoluti...
Is it a majority? Where's your data? But, even so, who cares? If a majority of physicists in the time of Newton believed physics was fully determined ...
They don't all agree on an interpretation. I don't see where you get this, maybe read some of @"Wayfarer"''s posts. No, we can't know. We can't know i...
I've already mentioned, it can just be supposed that all the possibilities propagate, including ones in which evolution happens, and the first possibl...
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