Shawn

Lot of noise over a topic nobody took that seriously. Gotta remind myself this is the internet's after all.

Pretentiousness personified.

Happens.

Yes, the rebellious fart is an unsung hero. All public farts are rebellious in some manner or form.

I wonder, because farts are seemingly all downward movements. Perhaps, the pessimism and futility philosophers all fart with sadness and despair. Who ...

I'm not too sure about Nietzsche. Never really bought into him. But, maturity seems like a Hegelian concept if you ask me.

Yes, we are all rather mature 'in our own way'. Is 'maturity' overrated?

Now, that's just gratuitous suffering inflicted on the innocent and poor.

I rest my case. The savage fart has been unveiled. Those are rare, when the goal is to gas the family.

Ahh, yes. It's a mournful fart often at funerals. There are also sinister farts inside a car with the windows rolled up.

Awesome. Happy farts are cool. Like the ones left in a jacuzzi that nobody knows who made it; but, you smile to yourself knowing they will never know.

'fart' what made you come up with that nick? Is it a happy fart or just a plain fart?

Confusing if true. I wonder what Wittgenstein would say.

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Oh, so it's metaphysics time, again. Sorry, don't have much to offer in that regard. Do androids dream of electric sheep, is a question that keeps on ...

I read chapter 5, and some of chapter 8, as prescribed. I can't say really much to the points raised in those chapters about 'machine intelligence' or...

Will do!

Well, we like to identify with leaders or other people or significant others, yet, we can never be them. In the context of AI, which I think we're sti...

Yeah, there was one Jesus, one Buddha, and one Mohammed. They can't be replicated or even imitated. We do strive towards their image though, in our ow...

You don't really give me much to reply to here; but, I'll give it a shot. AI, comparatively makes no sense to us. Nor will it ever really make sense t...

I think it's a material conditional. The presupposition is empirical otherwise.

What do you mean by that? EDIT: So, AI is just a term denoting the ultimate creation of humanity. What's not to romanticise about it?

I put it in that fallacious wording, seemingly, because we have not yet erased the dichotomy between technology and human nature. But, the way things ...

Yes, how else do you explain increases in economic output, productivity gains, and efficiency improvements in the process of production?

What makes you say that? Don't you use a telephone or smartphone nowadays? You posting this here instead of meeting at a public forum in person alread...

So, we can agree that there's a dichotomy here between human kind or nature and technology that you are trying to outline here. One is stagnant or unc...

Well, the proof is in the pudding if you will. We're still here even though we came pretty close to MAD. It's just that the rate of progress over the ...

Yes, like I said. In non standard analysis 0.999... exists infinitesimally close to 1. Don't ask me the details, as I'm not apt in Robinsonian analysi...

So, yet again I ask. What's the issue with technology and science here? They are merely tools that we either use positively or negatively to our benef...

Right next to 1, just infinitesimally so. Though, you can do calculus without infinitesimals if you so want to. Just use non-standard analysis.

So, then Platonism is a absolute sense of idealism working on local and global state spaces? Just another way of stating the idealism of Platonism her...

Well, if we're talking about the behavior or things in state space, then everything is striving to the lowest quantum level, hence the most optimal st...

This isn't problematic if one assumes Platonism to be true, no?

I'm not quite sure. I feel as though, there's a dichotomy being drawn between 'rationality' and 'human nature' here. Seems fallacious to me, as if one...

Give me one alternative if you disagree with the instrumentality argument. Is it intuitionalism?

Well the instumentality argument for mathematical Platonism is as strong as ever so how do you confront that with your misgivings with Platonism?

So, what's wrong with it? It's intelligible and seems to have content in it.

The human condition... Hmm, go ahead and share your opinion about it if you want. I will assume a quietist attitude here and listen to what you have t...

How so?

Maybe we're all crazy? I think there's some utility in expressing 'the good'. We all seem to have our own conception of it. One of its forms is manife...

Yay, and where does the number '2' exist?

Well, where else does the number '1' exist?

But, mathematical Platonism is true. But, yeah, psychology is too nuanced to view things Platonically. All those archetypes and all.

Sad day.

It's just Posty? How dare you deny my inherent self-loathing nature manifest in imitating Schoppy1?

Is it me or does that sound incoherent to you? How, why, and to what end?

I've always been a closet utilitarian. My conception of what is good, is that people suffer less and enjoy life more. Though, I understand the content...

Well, I think you have a point here. Personally, I don't believe in trickle down; but, productivity gains do exist through technology. I mean, it's ha...

I have read that neurons are composed of microtubules which obey the principles of QM indeterminacy. Penrose comes to mind in regards to this and his ...

Glad we got that settled. So, what are your thoughts furthermore about our future? Do, you think technology will save us or ultimately be a double edg...