It's a lonely, depressing and fearful world, filled with individuals competing in dominance hierarchies. You could've been something terrible. The pot...
The question is how severe our future A.I. God, "Over Eye" will be in choreographing life for weal or woe. Will it put any of us to sleep directly, or...
Actual is a synonym for true. If Wayfarer is the technical writer for the instructions of the recent Yahtzee game I bought he is not to be trusted as ...
The capability for A.I. to revolutionize the healthcare industry is of interest to me. Doctors already seem to rely on statistical likelihood when dec...
Christ, I can't help myself. Hanover's face shines forcefully over the hill (everyone is sweating). Question is bound to the cross between two thieves...
Hanover's Solar (golden) face materializes in the sky: "Thou shalt be a useful adult or else be shamed to exile or death." The face then falls to the ...
I defer to Dostoevsky: " Now I ask you: what can be expected of a man since he is a being endowed with such strange qualities? Shower upon him every e...
This reminds me of Daniel Dennett when he calls consciousness an illusion but then turns around and says it is not moral (good) to tell susceptible in...
Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy: 3.2 Nietzsche's Anti-Realism This is over my head by it sounds like ...
Don't despair if you are a hopeless philistine either. You can sublimate your will to power in all sorts of healthy ways, in a dominance hierarchy of ...
I think we see this contradiction all the time between professed values and actual behavior. There are always more basic (instinctual) sorting process...
Blind faith in a dogma (fundamentalism) might be an example where the moral conditioning aspect of experience is undermined by an appeal to a vicariou...
We've had the evolved capacity for self-advancing strategies in group settings for a long time. There are some species of bats that feed each others y...
Pencil and paper can't get you a cup of "Earl Grey Tea, Hot!" or play Chopin, or win against you in a Chess match, et cetera. Pencil and paper can't e...
Well, I get the basic feelings (instincts) that are associated with action to form judgment but what determines moral judgment often comes from outsid...
It's essentially the condition of Job (Biblical figure) where instead there is a lack of faith in God (or the standard morality) coupled with misfortu...
I still don't see why you would say morality is not learned. If I put my hand on a hot stove as a child, do I not quickly "learn" that it is painful a...
...education of values is so inimical to vicarious experience Morality can be learned by vicarious experience (ie. a shamed or punished substitute for...
Moderators are here to kick out those who don't play the game (ie. buy the values of philosophy). Intellectuals are here to shame us kids (ie the ugly...
There is nothing in this desolate hole but mythic fantasies. St. George killed the dragon and in some other myth the blood or liver was eaten. Generat...
Grown men do have a problem with a build of up rancid oil in their clothes. Detergent and non-chlorine bleach do not fully eliminate this problem. The...
I experimented with non-addictive hallucinatory/dissociative drugs mainly because it gave me inclusion in a social group, it broke down inhibitions. I...
Who are these intellectual snobs, suffering under the oppressive reality of a dominance hierarchy? I'm not interested in truth but rather status (whic...
Imagine a future where A.I. can interpret and build a structure from your writing, such that descriptions are enriched into other formats and language...
Thanks for reply and concern. The post in question is no longer important to me and will send a PM next time. It may be that I was looking at post pre...
Pet traumatic stress disorder Widespread asthmatic crisis Worst hang overs known to young bipedal apes Insomnia What is not to like about New Year's e...
The problem with plant growth enhancement is dealing with the more basic limiting factors of growth (water and soil fertility). These factors have to ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Ebtf1BKX0 Let's go back to the future of the new romantic movement! Don your cosplay and engage the public. You're b...
There is a secondary circadian clock which is regulated by digestion, so you probably don't want to eat too late. Limit your eating window to 8 hrs as...
If we care too much about non-human suffering, then our right to sell and buy fried, grilled, roasted or sauteed animal might be taken away by moral a...
Sarcasm Tags might be useful to indicate when we want to ridicule and point out irony without voice inflection.Sarcasm Troll Or when we are a pro-infl...
Sarcasm--->Not only should we be punished for misreading but also for post redundancy due to skipping posts. I suppose it could be part of the PF's be...
Catholics wouldn't be able to eat Jesus if he hadn't undergone the crucifixion (dismemberment). The blood and flesh of Jesus were once that of Dionysu...
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