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These are the vague accusations I was speaking of.

Here's what one noted mystic had to say in 1912: To put things in the proper perspective, there have been a lot of "Taoist teachers and authors" over ...

I couldn't find Monty Python's blancmange sketch on YouTube, so I'll post this one instead. Seems appropriate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGWJczV...

Did you know that haggis was first made in Kazakhstan using horse parts?

On the other hand, you say blank mange.

Is that like wackamole?

This is clearly not true.

Accusations.

I know "lackadaisical" but I'd never heard "lackaday."

No vaguer or less specific than yours.

Universal access to abortion. Lack of respect for traditional values - patriotism, religion, marriage. Normalization of unconventional ways of life - ...

My father smoked a pipe. I can smell it now in my memory. The tobacco he used was very sweet. It smelled like dried cherries.

Or like real sugar in Coke. I've been told you can really tell the difference but I've never compared with the corn syrup we get now. They use it in C...

A new word, for me at least. I'm more partial to "alas" but I will keep "lackaday" on the bench for when I want to be a bit more historical or, as in ...

Did you know that bananas were first domesticated in Kazakhstan?

Your trust in @"Hanover"'s behavior is endearing if perhaps... optimistic. If my references to his past shenanigans really bothers you, I'll stop.

I think the goofiness is an unintended but not unpredictable result of the whole AI enterprise. That never struck me as strongly until I read about th...

You say that as if it's a bad thing. The forum needs to be reminded on a regular basis of the horror @"Hanover" has let loose. Also, it's funny.

This sounds like something you might say about me.

And rarely disturbing or disgusting. And no pictures of dolls with teeth embedded.

Yes, the inclusion of fake links provides an additional level of creepiness to the whole process. I think it highlights some of the deep concerns abou...

Ahem...

I don't see it as being as bad as you indicate. In the US in particular, conservative values have been marginalized and their expression restricted fo...

Makes sense. As I think I've noted before, Kazakhstan is where modern horses came from.

Stories like this are the reason The Shoutbox came into being. Also - it's a good story.

If you won't even scan through them to see where the conversation stands and what's been said before, you shouldn't post. No, that's not a requirement...

This is a good way of putting it. I think assigning a specific evolutionary purpose to consciousness is unjustified. Again - This is true of all words...

As I noted previously, we could say the same thing about any thing. I don't think consciousness handles intention and judgement, it just attaches mean...

The point of what I wrote in the post you quoted is that, yes, the self is a thing just like any other thing. It comes into existence just like every ...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/download/2705/YGID%20small.png A quote from "Self Reliance" gets a thumbs up from me.

"Black flag" can mean a number of things. Are you aware it is a brand of bug spray in the US?

Of course the original Easter did coincide with Passover. That's why Jesus was in Jerusalem.

Ok, but that's a really bad thing. "Oh, that's just what language models do" is not a very good excuse and it strikes me as very unlikely it will prot...

It seems unlikely to me that OpenAI will get off the hook if this kind of thing continues. The mayor didn't use Chat GPT, someone else did.

Yes, I was going to post that. The really amazing thing is that the program provided fake references for its accusations. The links to references in T...

How about this?

Just remember - Crest has been shown to be an effective decay-preventative dentifrice that can be of significant value when used in a conscientiously ...

It doesn't look like you looked at any of the other posts in the thread before you called @"bert1"'s post "dumb." If you had, you would see that your ...

Speaking about the US, and at the risk of being called a rabid partisan, I'll quote from a 2012 Brookings Institution report: This has become even mor...

The self is not different than any other thing in the world. If what you say is true then what you've written is also true of the rest of reality, not...

I hope it won't reduce your sense of accomplishment, but note I've edited your text above.

It's one of my favorite books. Magical realism. The protagonist and the reader are never quite sure what is happening, whether things are real or an i...

So, @"green flag" has changed their name to @"plaque flag".

I'll keep that in mind.

I always liked over easy because I'm impatient, but then, about 30% of the time I broke one of the yolks. I've started making them sunnyside up. I gue...

I like poached a lot, but I'm not very good a cooking them. Soft boiled is actually pretty similar in taste and texture. I like eggs Benedict too, but...

I think you are a valuable voice here on the forum. I've tried to lower the volume on my responses to you, because we can definitely strike sparks whe...

The French word for "egg" is "meatball." The Italian word for "meatball" is "egg." It's ironic.

As I noted in the post you quoted, I consider non-physicalist, and physicalist for that matter, approaches to reality to be metaphysical. Perhaps you ...

Eggs are the perfect food. Always in the refrigerator. Easy to cook 75 different ways, each of which has a different taste, feel, or both. Hard boiled...