T_Clark

My strongest interest is in metaphysics. Here are two books that have meant a lot to me. “An Essay on Metaphysics” by RG Collingwood. You should be ab...

It’s a quote from a famous movie.

Sorry. The correct quote is “Was you ever bit by a dead bee?”

Have you ever been bit by a dead bee?

Welcome to the forum. There are a lot of issues associated with economic growth. Many of them have been discussed often here on the forum. The one tha...

You are overthinking my fairly silly comment.

I assumed that’s what Hanover intended to say.

Why wouldn’t you want to disturb murderers?

But @"Jamal" just convinced me to use the em-dash in my posts. Thanks Jamal.

You can’t delete a comment completely, but you can edit it to remove the offensive language. When you edit it, you have to to leave something when you...

Come on 180—you and I have both stated our positions on this matter many times before.

I’m a big fan of Stephen Jay Gould, but I always thought his NOMA formulation was baloney. It’s just a way for an atheist to seem respectful towards s...

I thought I noted a touch of condescension. Turns out I was wrong. I’ll be more careful in the future.

You write English very well. As I’ve told you before, it’s been very satisfying to watch your improvement over the years. I especially like that you’v...

“Riding the Rap”— Elmore Leonard. Best crime writer ever. Second best—Tana French.

Whom am I stereotyping when I say the distinction between male and female is biological, but the distinction between man and woman is social and lingu...

Are you commenting to me or @"Copernicus"? I said that the difference between male and female is a biological one, but that the difference between man...

I think there is such a definition—one untainted by anti-religious myopia.

Your argument implies the difference between a Norwegian and an American is biological.

Worst. Argument. Ever.

You say “men’s terms,” I say “men’s perspective”. This is a mostly male forum. Expecting anything else is silly.

I’ve been thinking about this. Is what I’ve written here something that an LLM might write—whether or not you think my comment was insightful.

Somebody is doing it wrong.

Are those the mountains of northern Georgia in the background? Can you see the giraffes from your window?

I understand from reading your posts you have much more experience with this then I do. Beyond that you use much more sophisticated programs. I guess ...

I guess I misunderstood. I thought that was the main point. I thought it was a summary of your motivation for the comments in the first paragraph.

As I understand it, the insight is what you’re supposed to provide in your post. I don’t really care where you get it from, but the insight should be ...

Sounds like you use it a lot more than I do, although I really do like it for a certain limited number of uses. As an example, I needed to find a new ...

That may be a good reason for you not to use AI, but it’s not a good reason to ban it from the forum.

Which is outside the scope of this discussion.

I wasn’t addressing the question of whether a trans man should be considered a man or a trans woman should be considered a woman. My comment only addr...

This is clearly incorrect. The difference between male and female is a biological issue. The difference between man and woman is a social and linguist...

But it always says such nice things about my ideas.

I don’t disagree, but I still think it can be helpful personally in getting my thoughts together.

That’s not always the case here, but so far I guess nobody’s complained.

Whether or not, I agree with your answer, in the past similar types of conclusions have led to threats of banning. I don’t think this question can be ...

I’ve already stated I find AI to be useful in investigating specific philosophical questions. When I’ve used it for that, I’ve handled it similarly to...

For me, it’s not a question of clear and flowing, it’s a question of insightful. My experience with using AI myself is that it produces lots of surfac...

I disagree with this. I was toying around with a bunch of disparate ideas that seemed related to me. I used chat GPT to help me figure out what they h...

It is my understanding olive loaf is made by replacing the fat in mortadella with olives. This is generally done by hand by Italian peasants.

I guess we’ve moved on to urination as a subject here. At least it’s an improvement on squash and punctuation.

I guess I’m naïve or maybe just not very perceptive, but I haven’t recognized any posts definitely written by AI. There have always been enough overbl...

A little snotty irony is always appreciated

As I said, I am not familiar with preachers or preaching of any sort beyond what I’ve seen in church when I was a kid. I guess all I would say is that...

I don’t think there’s any doubt that our consciousness has an active role to play. This is from “Feeling and Knowing” by Antonio Damasio.

I’ve been thinking about faith recently. It certainly isn’t something that gets a lot of respect here on the forum. The forum is full of people who co...

Silly. I’ve made love at least times and this doesn’t match my experience—or my partner’s. Perhaps someone couldn’t get a date to the prom.

That’s why I said “usually.” As I understand it, engineering mechanics is the science of phenomena that can be constructed using the principles of low...

Do you have a source for this Nietzsche quote?

Yes, that’s called a crapular solipsist.