Janus

Did you find something useful in it?

Well, yes such quotes are no substitute for argument, and obviously they do not belong to the one who quotes. It is all the more objectionable if the ...

Yes...so what? What do you think you are disagreeing with here? Spot on as spotted!

Thanks for your generosity.

Fascination is also in the eye of the beholder. So equally, you are the only one who cares how fascinated you are. What I meant was that I'd be more f...

Yes, and then we get all the hopeful, "pie in the sky " talk about it all being worth it since AIs will, on account of their super-intelligence, be ab...

I have seen interactions with LLMs on this site that certainly make it look like the lights are on—I don't know about whether it looks like anyone is ...

:rofl: :cry: That'd be a hilarious scenario, if it wasn't so sad.

:lol: Right, they're only as good as what they are trained on, so I thought they were already down in that pit. Some commentators predict that as the ...

I think banning would not be totally effective, but more effective than mere discouragement or partial allowance. That's true I suppose. It's a bit li...

I spent the last hour composing a post responding to all my mentions, and had it nearly finished only to have it disappear leaving only the single let...

I'm thinking of laws as being descriptions of observed regularities. Then there are theories which purport to explain the ways in which those regulari...

Perhaps that happens sometimes. If there were no regularities, there would be no laws. It doesn't follow from the fact that there are laws that our un...

I can't say I know they were written by AI, but merely that I have suspected it. The main reason I would discourage its use is that the rapid developm...

Give me an example of a racist claim that does demonstrate X (X being clear evidence, or even a compelling argument, that some race is tout court, inf...

That's one interpretation. It depends on what is meant by "enlightenment". Ramana Maharshi reportedly became spontaneously enlightened as a schoolboy,...

I agree with what you write there except for the above. I don't think we live in a "mediocre time" regarding art, and I do believe it is probably too ...

OK, thanks...good luck with your project.

Cheers, some interesting things to think about there. I'm not very well-schooled in these kinds of things, but some of it seems to make intuitive sens...

Am I to understand that you are saying the laws of nature are not merely codifications of natural invariances and their attributes, but are the invari...

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Right, the idea that the "laws" evolved has intuitive appeal. I never found the idea that they are given from above convincing. Perhaps I should consi...

Why would I have to show X is absent if the claim relies on X, but does not demonstrate it's presence?

If they can't show X is present their claim is vacuous. I don't have to show X is absent. The sophistry is yours.

Not true. "Tout court inferior" is a mere subjective claim masquerading as an objective claim. "Not tout court inferior" is not a subjective claim but...

But are laws of nature not codifications of observed invariances? That's just what I meant by saying that we know (or have every reason to believe at ...

:up: Yep, more good examples.

Any support they come up with will necessarily be merely subjective, while it purports to be a universally valid claim. That's waht I mean by unsuppor...

I agree with you... @"unenlightened" is blowing the smoke of mere logical possibility. We know that past futures have all resembled past pasts, we hav...

My position is merely a rejection of an unverifiable, unsupportable position. It is obviously neither empirically nor logically falsifiable because we...

It's not that anti-racist claims are falsifiable. The anti-racist claim is made on the basis of the unverifiability, the complete lack of supportabili...

But again there is no truth without true facts, or true facts without truth—so I'm not seeing any genuine separation. A possible conceptual distinctio...

I've taken a while to respond, because there is a fair bit of subtlety, nuance in this question about understanding. I agree one cannot be justified i...

Beings are not separate from being, and being is not separate from beings. Sure, we can draw a conceptual distinction between being and beings, but it...

It certainly seems to me something interesting to explore, but as you no doubt know, I am not well-schooled in formal logic. I am also interested in s...

I think that is probably right. I've been watching a lecture by Russell on YouTube—finding it interesting, but there's a lot to wrap my head around. T...

I could reframe the question—if in logic something's being true entails other things being true (at least sometimes) can the same be said of reality? ...

Yes, and as I said earlier, such examining is all we have to go on, and so it is rational to base our inferences on that observation and its understan...

It's ironic that an OP seemingly written by AI questions the intelligence of AIs. Intelligence is not the same as consciousness—to qualify as consciou...

I agree with what you say, and for me the idea that the past constrains the future relies on the idea that the '"laws of nature" may evolve over long ...

Harari outlines a different set of problem here. We probably shouldn't be using AI. If we do, we may well become unwitting perpetrators of what may be...

It's not true by definition that the future will, or even likely will, resemble the past because it always has. It's just an expectation based on habi...

I'd still change that to "The future will most likely resemble the past because as far as we can tell, the future has always resembled the past". It's...

I don't take it as being "the future will resemble the past", but "the future will most likely resemble the past". This is practical, not "pure" or de...

We cannot justify it by deductive reasoning, but we can by inductive reasoning—so the conclusion that the future will resemble the past is not certain...

The "U" is a given—without understanding nothing gets off the ground in the first place, so I don't see how it adds anything when it is always already...

Yes, we know, or can discover, what manner of existence things have for us. We can also ask what manner of existence they could have for other percipi...

All we have as guide is past experience, and what seems to work. Apart from instinct, it's all any animal has. Science (and not just science) is a vas...

We may have different notions of abduction. My conception of abduction certainly doesn't preclude novel thinking or "thinking outside the box". I ofte...

I meant to respond to your question about whether abduction resolves Hume's problem of induction. I don't see how it has any bearing on it. As I under...