I've found ChatGPT to be sometimes excellent but also highly variable and sometimes inaccurate. It attributes quotes to the wrong people, or it makes ...
It's just what it looks like. The polls are looking favorable for Trump, so it may well work. Incidentally, I have met quite a few pro Trump Australia...
I don't think it will matter. They see the trial as some bullshit political witch-hunt and a significant percentage of voters don't seem to care, so I...
I'm not really sure what I am trying to say. I recognize that relationships evolve over time. Or devolve. My original point was that I find people don...
At some point the Vatican removed many of the penises from classical sculptures they had and replaced them with plaster fig leaves. Somewhere in the V...
You generate a lot more questions with this. These are not givens. They are expressing assumptions - values and a set of preferences. It may be that i...
As someone who has been drunk more times than I can remember, I have (by that logic) therefore been reborn many thousands of times. All I can say is t...
All of this reminds me of famous Orwell essay, Politics and the English Language (1946) he writes: 'The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so f...
Not really. Generally around the world it is a government regulation based on food hygiene advice that perishable foodstuffs only keep for a certain n...
Neither of those resonate with me. What you said is this - This in Western terms generally expresses 1) a human rights perspective and 2) reciprocal a...
I think it's down to temperament, this one. Some people think they find the idea exhilarating, others imagine it will be tedious. Generally this proba...
Pizza is a funny food. In Australia there are a number of boutique pizza providers that try to be clever with the idea (truffle cream, goats cheese, e...
How would I know? I just responded to the idea that we notice people chaining. I don't, generally. Of course you might have noticed that I wrote earli...
I think it is empathy. I suspect humans, as a social species, are hard wired for empathy which is likely foundational to morality and human rights. It...
That's kind of the point we have been discussing. The resentment within populations which seeks antidemocratic 'strong men' to deliver them from polit...
:up: The classic question of the modern era. I'm not a theorist or a psychologist but I have worked with people (often at their worst: suicidal, overd...
It's an interesting question, particularly for the older male. My routine is boring but effective. I have never been inside a gym or partaken in any s...
Like most leaders, Trump can't achieve what he wants without allies, supporters, advisors, confidants, etc. I imagine his capacity to choose wisely he...
The problem with incompetence is that incompetent people often end up in charge of things - banks, businesses, corporations, governments. They don't a...
And this is simply a difference in how we read the events and personalities, I would say. Same as above. However, being a scorned idiot does not precl...
I don't think America is immune to dictatorship. It just needs the right ingredients. Dealing with dissidents or enemies through imprisonment and murd...
Cool. Maybe this is what we agree on. Fair enough. I guess it's just down to how one interprets the phenomenon. I tend to think he's wanting absolute ...
That's an interesting read of it. I guess what I see is nascent fascism. The pointers are there, in his words and deeds but he needs another term to c...
Interesting . Yes, the civil war aspect of this is another possibility. Or more home grown terrorism. I wish I could share this view. I tend to agree ...
Ok. So those like me who think it is more likely under Trump if he gets in are on equal footing? It’s more of a read of the situation, interpreted dif...
As I said, abstracts don’t work for me. Maybe you could demonstrate? What do you mean? Are you saying that it is amazing that we could know that food,...
Hmm. My own take is that the word 'sentimentality' here is probably being used somewhat arbitrarily. You could also talk about your 'connection' to yo...
The thing is I don't find such allegories (shall we say abstractions?) helpful. I would like to see an articulated social policy strategy, along with ...
Interesting. I've never really felt anyone around me has changed much over time. Certainly not my partner or significant friends or long term colleagu...
Some (like George Lakoff, the cognitive linguist and philosopher) might say this is his brilliance in framing - in recognizing that consistency doesn'...
All this reminds me of an old joke. A very bad actor was performing the lead in Hamlet - it was so bad that his performance elicited boos and hisses f...
:up: Good point. I hear you and thanks for the talk. I am interested in your perspective. Got ya. Yes, my point is more that their sense making of the...
That's true. I often come down on the side of usage rather than definitions. This does not mean that I consider every word can be used however we like...
Ha! I see why you might say this but I think that’s an uncharitable view. As an aside, New Atheism was just a publishing gimmick, it didn't amount to ...
And, of course, there are emerging traditions which are seeking to restore a form of Neoplatonism to the Western tradition in the manner of cognitive ...
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