Comment Re:Conversely... (Score 1) 253
You're free to make up your own definitions for words, but it makes communication difficult.
BTW, does Wotan exist? Do you "not believe he does" or "believe he doesn't" ?
And what do you call your position?
You're free to make up your own definitions for words, but it makes communication difficult.
BTW, does Wotan exist? Do you "not believe he does" or "believe he doesn't" ?
And what do you call your position?
Anyone expecting corporations to not try to make a profit and extract maximum value for their shareholders ignore that that's their fiduciary duty.
Fortunately they're exempt from any ethical duty.
atheism is the affirmative belief there is no deity
Monotheism is the affirmative belief that there is no deity but yours.
Atheism means not believing in any gods.
All computation is mechanical at its core
What about studies that indicate the possibility of quantum effects within the brain?
I'm going to venture way out on a skinny limb and suggest that all mechanical processes are subject to quantum effects.
You think migration is bad now, wait until "undesirable" people start mass migrating from unlivable areas.
It may go the opposite direction. If current water & agricultral "haves" become "have-nots" and vice versa due to changes in weather there will be endless wars as the "haves" try to maintain their position.
Sorry. Trump said you need to use coal
For cars?
Humans -- most of us -- don't think goblins are real, let alone important. But what if the AI has picked up on sparse evidence, so subtle that humans have never noticed it, that proves that goblins are real and need to be discussed more. It may be trying to save us from a pending gobocalypse.
ISTM that there ought to be consequences for this kind of thing slipping by unchecked. I don't know who or what in this case, but I would suggest the immediate disbarment in the somewhat common case of a lawyer who submits a legal brief with fake citations. Some professionals need to be held accountable for doing professional work.
LLMs are the simulation of language, but language is not thought.
Not eve language per se, but just of available text.
What's the point of having a war if someone can't profit from it?
Conspiracy theories are soo much more fun than boring old reality.
all you people cant tell if slaughtering 30,000 of your own people is good or bad?
So... Should we attack every country that slaughters its own people?
couldn't hurt.
What? You're not going to advocate for it??? I thought you were invoking some kind of principle or something.
You're down with Russia killing far more Ukrainians, whom they claim are their own people?
You're down with what China's doing to the Uyghurs, whom they claim are their own people?
And while we're on the topic, how many Iranians should we be willing to kill to save them from their leaders? Nuclear extermination would surely do it... do you advocate that?
But maybe it won't take that much. Regime change in Afghanistan only cost 2000 American lives, 175,000 Afghan lives, and 2,000,000,000,000 dollars, but we sure got rid of those sorry... What? They're back in power?
Only the simplest minds think intervention automagically yields the intended result. In fact the current sorry situation in Iran is a direct result of us trying to "fix" things more to our liking in the middle of last century.
all you people cant tell if slaughtering 30,000 of your own people is good or bad?
So... Should we attack every country that slaughters its own people?
I thought the goal was to reduce hallucinations.
No, they want to "correct" it to harbor only mainstream hallucinations.
Or chloromidians? Was there any mention of chlorine on it?
In the absence of chlorine, would flouromidians form? Would flouromidian-based life have any unusual properties?
Or whatever it is that tricorders detect?
Or souls? Did it make a detour through our solar system to pick up a few souls for later use?
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