Outlander

The bottom line is, either he was serious or he was spamming (lying or otherwise posting non-serious topics on the main page of the forum). So are you...

Beats me. How do we know if a person who comes up to you on the street and tells you to call 911 really has an emergency? We don't. We just assume the...

I mean, sometimes I wonder if @"Jamal" actually sold out to "big AI" and this entire forum is just a training model to be fed to LLM and that's why th...

But, you don't actually. That's the key difference between you and the banned poster. I'm not sure what else can be said. :brow:

I know, I'm upset too, javi. Arguably I was upset already and it had nothing to do with this banning. But the now-banned user was not only quite clear...

I think I discovered "anti philosophy" for the first time. No, it is not worth a read. The author attempts to frame Socrates as a person "roaming arou...

Give them time. What if they just came out of a coma or something. Mostly joking but who knows. I can't recall a single instance of any length of "nec...

@"CorneliusCoburn" Holy necro-post! Where did you come from all of a sudden?! *shouts annoyingly slow* DO YOU KNOW WHAT YEAR IT IS? :lol:

I suppose there's simply not very many fresh faces around these parts lately. I admired the new energy is all, objectionable as it was, it was a chall...

Held accountable for something the individual believed they played no role in or otherwise a state of being or mind that would have been even if same ...

What proof do you have of any of this? Even if legal proof is available (which it's not). You would still have no idea that his understanding of the t...

Technophile.

(As a reminder these are the relevant items of @"Jamal"'s stipulated usages of AI): 1. AI Summaries (Topic Summaries) 4. AI Bot 5. Post Editing Assist...

Since you asked. I think the following reply is quite reasonable: I mean, just look at it from a layperson's perspective. Life is hard. People are cru...

Maybe @"Metaphysician Undercover"'s point is to understand something, real or not, you have to have an abstraction of it. The philosopher's argument b...

All I was trying to say is, even a child can come across "true knowledge"—he or she simply might be "incapable of knowing (processing it?)" at the tim...

You've never accidentally walked into a 9th grade math class (one with an equation on the board) by mistake when you were in 5th grade? :wink: An impo...

Isn't that supported by basic evolution? Even common layperson knowledge (caveman grunts, etc.)? A child can barely speak, but typically, gains the ab...

Could it be that times (perhaps even minds) were simpler as recent as 200 years ago before any sort of recognizable modern engine, let alone technolog...

How would you describe it to someone not familiar with ginger? Is it earthy? Bitter? I notice it has levels of what I assume to be "spiciness." Is tha...

Congratulations on your first thread in well over a year, @"Hanover" Rest assured, it will be held to the highest almost silly levels of scrutiny

Of course, "obvious" means easily or rather, expected to be perceived. Perception is a phenomenon of experience meets knowledge. We assume the average...

It's not really relevant in comparison to the discussion. Other than it's an attempted (and in some societies, successful) moral hijacking of social n...

Anything that shouldn't be normalized. In a society that tolerates and encourages slavery, for example, it might be "normal gender behavior" for males...

Seems like as good a time as any to reset the topic. :smile: That is, so people can understand what the OP and the most recent poster they engaged wit...

Right now, as I post this, I am in the actual world of TPF. As are you when you are participating in it. It is very real. It psychically exists. It ca...

What proof do you have of such that a person in a stipulated or even flat-out simulated world wouldn't be able to "show" or otherwise "point to" as we...

I mean, you make it sound like he's just some kid. What's a young kid supposed to say about a topic he knows nothing about? What would you say about a...

:eyes: :starstruck:

The peculiar—and at times, perverse—machinations of your mind should be enough to keep any man awake at any time of the day. Judging by your infamous ...

"Logomachy: A Look at a Nineteenth-Century Card Game (1874)" https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf6Oo5VDIyyDJRKUX714P2hVSh-rMa...

I have fond memories of cabbage soup growing up. I always disliked the cabbage itself, picking out the individual pieces from the soup as I would eat ...

Well, shoot. I'm just one poster. See what others have to say and go from there I guess. I mean, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, rig...

I do not. I can browse most popular websites easily and with full functionality: Facebook, Twitter (X). Amazon, Google, banking websites, etc. Discour...

Absolutely. No one should have any ability to make you think otherwise. Not necessarily. I've come to admire the nice features and design of Plush, bu...

What is entertainment? It must differ from liveliness and general social fraternization. Is all art and media simply expression that happens to fall u...

So what's your solution? People will follow anything. Someone or something attractive, larger than themself, popular, or of course, yes, religiously e...

All that means is laypersons need to be controlled by governing authorities and penalized when they act out. Which they are. Those who aren't sneaks, ...

Psst. It's been stated by the ultimate authority here that this particular line of topic needs to take a hard backseat, if you will. At least for some...

A joyful question! That deserves an equally joyful answer. Regrettably I have none to bring. "Herb Gravy Chicken & Smashed Potatoes" with Green Beans ...

I checked on my phone. It has a nice, compact yet usable "floating" pagination feature on the bottom right of the screen. Some might even call that ov...

I will, thanks. I'll even update my browser for you. (Interesting because I do fairly often, it can't be more than a few months since I got the latest...

All scientific innovation (read that again, EVERY single thing around you that isn't a rock attached to a stick) was created by a small minority. This...

@"boethius" I love you. You're a rare breed. But the man has made his decision. Any benefit (or detriment and consequence) of his decision is now his ...

Ooh, this. So much this. It's especially impactful if you browse on an Internet connection that is slow or throttled. As a web developer myself it's j...

That's what's missing from every menu. Yes, I can see it now. "A sort of Turkish chicken liver kebab thing" only 8.99 :grin:

Lots of people doing lots of things cause vast amounts of problems, equally. Do you really know for certain what is the cause of every great suffering...

@"boethius" is just trying to look out for the best interest of @"Jamal", and as a result, all of us. Misguided or not. Why so authoritarian all of a ...

I think to remedy some confusion here, it should be stated that since Jamal is a citizen of the UK, the Online Safety Act (rather it's potential legal...

The "new home for TPF" thread is getting mighty gnarly. So much possibility, so much to ponder over and consider. Remember to do so after eating a goo...